Common Name

Mt Trafalgar Wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Known only from Mt Trafalgar in the northern Kimberley region, W.A.

Description

Slender, wispy shrub or tree 4–7 m high, canopy sparse. Bark smooth and conspicuously pruinose except fissured and grey at base of stems on mature plants. Branchlets lightly pruinose. Adult phyllodes falcate to sub-falcate, 17–25 cm long, 7–12 mm wide, glossy, green. Peduncles 2–4 mm long; spikes 2–4 cm long. Pods 3–5 mm wide; seeds 4 mm long, 2 mm wide.

Habitat

Grows on sandstone plateau in rocky sand.

Specimens

W.A. summit of Mt Trafalgar, Prince Regent R. Reserve, A.S.George 12787 (CANB, PERTH).

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