Acacia atrox Kodela subsp. atrox
Acacia atrox Kodela subsp. atrox
Fabaceae
Known only from the Inverell area, N.S.W. Listed as an Endangered Species under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act, 1995.
Shrub mostly 0.5–2 m high, oldest plants to 4 m. Phyllodes rigid, 2–4.5 cm long, 1–1.2 (–1.5) mm wide, longitudinally splayed at base for 2–6 mm, gradually tapered at apex to cusp 1.5–3.5 mm long; ±8-nerved (a yellow one at apex of each angle and an obscure or incomplete one inbetween). Peduncles 5–21 mm long; heads 17–25-flowered, 5–7 mm diam. (dry).
Flowers May–July.
Grows in deep clay soils over basalt on upper slope and crest of low hill in eucalypt woodland-pasture area.
N.S.W.: Myall Creek Stn, T.Tame 6285 (BRI, CANB, MEL, NE, NSW, PERTH).
Very similar to subsp. planitiicola, particularly in habit, bark, phyllodes (sessile, sharply pungent and with distinctively dilated bases), floral features and Hakea fruit-like galls.
Flora of Australia Project
P.G.Kodela, B.R.Maslin
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