Acacia anasilla A.S.George, J. Roy. Soc. Western Australia 82: 97 (1999)
Erect shrub to 2 m high. Stems densely white-hispid. Stipules erect, subulate, 1.5–2 mm long. Phyllodes 15–20 per whorl, the lower erect, the upper spreading to gently recurved, slender, straight, 5–10 mm long, the incurved mucro 2–4 mm long and commonly with viscid droplets, hispid. Peduncles 1.5–3 cm long, hispid. Heads 40–50-flowered. Flowers with calyx c. 0.8 mm long, glabrous, the lobes subulate, short; corolla 2–2.3 mm long, striate, hispid in upper half. Pods sessile, 2–3.5 cm long, 5–6 mm wide, glabrous. Seeds 3–10 per pod, longitudinal, c. 4 mm long; pleurogram closed; aril large.
Recorded from Mabel Downs and Springvale Stns and Dimond Gorge on the Fitzroy R., W.A. Grows on sandstone and granite hillsides in Eucalyptus brevifolia woodland.
Has more flowers per head than others of the section. Resembles A. lycopodiifolia but larger in its vegetative parts. Also similar to A. smeringa , differing especially in the striate corolla and narrow calyx lobes. The early collections from Ord R. and Halls Creek possibly have general locality data.
Type of accepted name
Winnama Spring, Mabel Downs Stn, W.A., 15 Nov. 1989, K.A.Menkhorst 835 ; holo: PERTH; iso: CANB, DNA, MEL.
Representative collections
W.A.: Dimond Gorge, c. 70 km NE of Fitzroy Crossing, Fitzroy R., A.C.Beauglehole 53813 (BRI, PERTH); c. 45 km NW of Springvale Stn, M.Lazarides 5068 (CANB, MEL); Ord R., 1888, Nyntasy (MEL); Halls Creek, 1895, W.Mansbridge (MEL).
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