Acacia congesta Benth. subsp. congesta
WATTLE
Acacias of Australia
Family
Fabaceae
Distribution
Disjunct, occurring in the Geraldton–Northampton, Mingenew–Morawa and the Mogumber–Moora–Pithara areas.
Description
Shrub 0.5–2.5 m high. Branchlets glabrous or sparsely ±hirsutellous with patent to retrorsely appressed hairs. Phyllodes 10–30 mm long, l:w = 2–5, glabrous or margins and midrib sparsely hirsutellous, slightly shiny, with adaxial margin often slightly angled at the gland. Peduncles 1 per axil or arranged in short racemes, 5–20 mm long, glabrous or sparsely hairy; heads globular or obloid, 35–65-flowered. Pods 5–6 mm wide. Seeds 4–5 mm long.
Habitat
Grows on rocky or gravelly hills, in scrub or heath.
Specimens
W.A.: 24.5 km E of Mingenew on road to Moora, B.R.Maslin 6243 (PERTH); Swan R., J.Drummond 293 (BM, G, K, OXF, P); 1.6 km NE of Nabawa, B.R.Maslin 719 (CANB, MEL, NSW, PERTH); 11 km N from Miling on Great Northern Hwy to Pithara, B.R.Maslin 6210 (PERTH).
FOA Reference
Data derived from Flora of Australia Volumes 11A (2001), 11B (2001) and 12 (1998), products of ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia
Author
B.R.Maslin
Minor edits by J.Rogers
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