Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Seemingly restricted to the Tammin area.

Description

Spreading subshrub to c. 0.3 m high, with ascending to erect branches. Branchlets tomentulose and flattened or angled at extremities, glabrescent. Phyllodes somewhat coarse, mostly 40–60 mm long, infrequently 20–30 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide. Peduncles 4–7 (–10) mm long, ±stout, 0.5–0.8 mm diam. (when dry), tomentulose; heads 7–9 mm diam. (when dry), c. 20-flowered; bracteoles 2–2.5 mm long. Calyx 3/4 to fully the length of the corolla; petals 2.5–3 mm long, nerveless or faintly flabellate-striate and lacking a central nerve.

Habitat

Grows in sand over laterite in low heath.

Specimens

W.A.: type locality, M.D.Crisp 6595 (CANB, NSW, PERTH).

Notes

May resemble some forms of A. stenoptera.

FOA Reference

Data derived from Flora of Australia Volumes 11A (2001), 11B (2001) and 12 (1998), products of ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia

Author

Minor edits by J.Rogers

B.R.Maslin