Acacia penninervis var. longiracemosa Domin
Acacia penninervis var. longiracemosa Domin
Fabaceae
Coastal districts S of about Gladstone, Qld, to Bald Knob, northern N.S.W. Common in the understorey of open eucalypt forest.
Phyllodes narrowly elliptic, commonly gradually narrowed to an acute apex, (6–) 7–15 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, l:w = 2.5–8, ±membranous; midrib often ±contiguous with lower margin for 5–10 mm above the pulvinus. Raceme axes and peduncles glabrous or sparsely to moderately appressed-puberulous with white hairs.
Qld: near summit of Mt Larcom, S.T.Blake 22448 (BRI); south-eastern slopes of Mt Coot-tha, D.E.Boyland 662 (MEL). N.S.W.: Bald Knob, 6 Feb. 1971, K.Grieves (NSW, PERTH).
Geographic pattern of variation in Qld is discussed by L.Pedley, Austrobaileya 1: 268 (1980). Very similar to A. binervata.
Data derived from Flora of Australia Volumes 11A (2001), 11B (2001) and 12 (1998), products of ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia
B.R.Maslin
Minor edits by J.Reid & J.Rogers
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