Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Known only from the type collection in an area NE of Wagin in south-western W.A.

Description

Bushy shrub 2–3 m high. Branchlets tomentose. Phyllodes inequilaterally narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, straight to shallowly recurved, c. 10 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, obtuse and excentrically mucronulate, coriaceous, with 2 or 3 distant tomentulose main nerves and with ±raised, anastomosing secondary nerves. Inflorescences 1-headed racemes; raceme axes 1.5–2 mm long, white-tomentulose; peduncles 3.5–4 mm long, tomentulose, with a basal glabrous round bract and an amorphous glandular mass opposite; heads globular, 4–4.5 mm diam., densely 30–40-flowered, presumably golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. 2/3-united. Pods not seen.

Habitat

Grows in gravelly soil in Wandoo forest.

Notes

A member of the ‘A. flavipila group’ related to A. flavipila which differs in having commonly two-headed racemes and smaller heads, free sepals and ±golden pubescence.

Conservation

Gazetted a presumed extinct species in W.A.

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, B.R.Maslin