Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Restricted to the Yorkrakine-Bungalla area (c. 30 km N to c. 10 km E of Tammin), W.A.

Description

Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic, 3–9.5 cm long, 5–13 mm wide, l:w = 3–12, with acute or sometimes obtuse apex; tip straight to slightly curved.

Habitat

Grows in red or yellow sand or sandy clay in sandplain heath with Eucalyptus spp. and in Acacia shrubland.

Specimens

W.A.: 17.6 km N of Bungalla, 2 Sept. 1936, C.A.Gardner s.n. (NSW, PERTH); 10.5 km N of Bungalla towards Wyalkatchem, B.R.Maslin 3393 (CANB, K, PERTH).

Notes

Subspecies acrita has a much wider distribution than the typical subspecies, but there is one record of it occurring within the range of subsp. yorkrakinensis.

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, R.S.Cowan