Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Common in the Mt Lesueur to Moore R. area, W.A.

Description

Shrub to 0.5 m high. Branchlets hirsutellous to puberulous, infrequently subglabrous. Stipules normally persistent. Phyllodes in regular or sometimes irregular whorls, with a few solitary or clustered (2 or 3 per node), (4–) 8–19 mm long, 0.8–1.8 mm wide, glabrous or nerves ±antrorsely puberulous. Peduncles 6–13 mm long; heads 22–32-flowered. Pods 5–7 mm wide. Seeds 4.5–5 mm long.

Habitat

Grows in sand or lateritic sand, in heath or shrubland.

Specimens

W.A.: Horse Breeding Reserve 15018, W of Mt Lesueur, R.Hnatiuk 770053 (PERTH); 5 km N of Cataby Roadhouse on Brand Hwy, B.R.Maslin 5481 (PERTH).

FOA Reference

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

Author

Minor edits by J.Rogers

B.R.Maslin