Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Scattered from Eneabba SE to Kukerin and Mt Madden, W.A.

Description

Occasionally semi-prostrate. Branchlets somewhat flexuose, usually antrorsely puberulous. Stipules spiny, 3–6 mm long, recurved. Pinnae 5–8 mm long; apices ±flattened and straight or recurved; terminal seta straight or recurved, often spiny; pinnules 3–5 pairs, glaucous to subglaucous, glabrous or sparsely hairy on margins and sometimes lower surface, nerveless or obscurely 1-nerved below. Peduncles 5–15 mm long.

Habitat

Grows in sand and lateritic soil, in tall shrubland and heath.

Specimens

W.A.: NE of Mt Lesueur, E.A.Griffin 2531 (PERTH); 12.9 km N of The Humps, B.R.Maslin 569 (K, MEL, NSW, PERTH).

Notes

Branchlets are puberulous to shortly pilose with ±patent hairs on plants from the Badgingarra–Eneabba area. Elsewhere they are puberulous with distinctly antrorse hairs.

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