Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Endemic in Porongurup Ra., c. 40 km N of Albany in south-western W.A.

Description

Phyllodes (3.5-) 5–8 cm long, 4–9 (–11) mm wide, narrowly oblong-elliptic to almost linear, with a few anastomoses often evident. Flower-heads 5–6 mm diam., 40–60-flowered. Pods to 8 cm long, 7–9 mm wide. Seeds 5.5–6 mm long; areole large, narrow, more than half seed-length.

Habitat

Grows in loamy soil on or near granite.

Specimens

W.A.: Devil’s Slide, Porongurup Ra., J.S.Beard 7638 (PERTH); Swan R. Colony, J.Drummond 5:11 (G, K, OXF, P, PERTH).

Notes

Some duplicates of the Drummond collection cited above are numbered ‘4:11’ but this number is properly assigned to Acacia leptospermoides, fide A.S.George & N.Marchant in an unpublished manuscript on Drummond collection numbers.

A robust form of the species with larger phyllodes, pods and seeds than the typical subspecies; it was referred to by G.Bentham, Fl. Austral. 2: 381 (1864), as a broad-phyllode form.

FOA Reference

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

Author

R.S.Cowan