Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Sporadic from near Perth S to Margaret River and Manypeaks, W.A.

Description

Subshrub, erect, single-stemmed or sparingly branched at base, spreading by subterranean runners. Branchlets puberulous-hirsutellous and pilose admixed. Pinnules oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, flat or with slightly recurved margins, excentrically apiculate and often shallowly inflexed at apex, hirsute to hirsutellous (the hairs often ±sparse); gland on petiole, absent from rachis. Spikes usually cylindrical and 10–20 mm long, ±loosely 25–35-flowered, creamy white to pale yellow. Calyx and corolla prominently nerved. Seeds longitudinal to oblique; aril 1/2–3/4 length of seed.

Habitat

Grows in sandy loam over laterite usually in Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) forest.

Specimens

W.A.: Dardanup to Boyanup, G.J.Keighery 6808 (K, PERTH); Lowden, M.Koch 2000 (AD, E, K, LY, MEL, NSW, P, PERTH); 9.6 km SW of Manypeaks towards Nanarup, B.R.Maslin (AD, BRI, CANB, K, PERTH).

Notes

Distinguished from A. luteola by the pinnules ±flat and gland on petiole (rarely also on rachis); also, the spikes are only rarely short, as in A. luteola (e.g. G.J.Keighery 6808).

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