Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Scattered from near Goomalling SSE to near Jerramungup in south-western W.A.

Description

Branchlets glabrous or puberulous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate-oblong, 1.8–3.5 cm long, 3–7 mm wide, 3–8 times longer than wide, mostly obtuse to rounded-obtuse. Seeds oval to elliptic, 2–3 mm long, mostly mottled light grey-brown on dark tan.

Habitat

Grows in sand or sandy gravel on hillsides and sandplains.

Specimens

W.A.: about 29 km due NW of Bruce Rock, B.R.Maslin 2365 (K, PERTH); 16 km E of Jerramungup, K.Newbey 783 (CANB, PERTH); 7.7 km E of Goomalling, P.Roberts 112A (PERTH).

Notes

The two varieties comprising A. mimica are different most obviously in their phyllode proportions. The northern, broad-phyllode form (var. mimica) extends south and actually into the range of var. angusta which follows an east/west line from near Albany to a locality east of Esperance.

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