Acacia calyculata A.Cunn. ex Benth., London J. Bot . 1: 379 (1842)
Multistemmed, glabrous shrub to 2.5 m high. Bark flaky, brown to grey. Branchlets flattened, stout, brownish. Phyllodes inaquilaterally very narrowly elliptic to narrowly elliptic, flat, straight to falcate, 4–12.5 cm long, 5–25 mm wide, obtuse or acute, coriaceous, with 3 conspicuous main nerves, the minor nerves 4–7 per mm, longitudinal, not anastomosing; gland 1, basal, to 1 mm above pulvinus. Spikes 1.4– 3.6 cm long, white to cream. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.5–0.7 mm long, dissected by 1/5–1/7, pubescent; corolla 1.2–1.8 mm long, dissected to 1/2, glabrous; ovary glabrous or with a few hairs at summit. Pods linear, tapered towards base, straight-sided, terete to slightly quadrangular, 5–11 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, woody, striated, glabrous, opening elastically from apex; seed-partitions thick. Seeds very slightly oblique, oblong-elliptic, 3.5–5.6 mm long, dark brown; pleurogram with pale halo; areole open; funicle-aril narrowly conical, very finely attenuated.
Occurs along the coast from Cape York Penin. to the vicinity of Townsville, between 13S and 19S, Qld. Grows usually in shallow rocky soils derived from sandstone or granite in eucalypt open forest or woodlands, often on steep hillsides, also in heath or scrub or in sand near coast. Flowers in all months.
The very pale inflorescences and flattened branchlets are diagnostic of this species. Related to A. solenota .
Type of accepted name
Fitzroy Is., [Qld], June 1819, A.Cunningham 323 ; holo: K; iso: BM n.v ., MEL, NSW.
Synonymy
Racosperma calyculatum (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) Pedley, Austrobaileya 2: 346 (1987). Type: as for accepted name.
Acacia australis Domin ex Velen., Vergl. Morph. Pfl . 4 (suppl.): 175, fig. 79 (1913). Type: ‘aus Australien in Queensland’; holo: n.v .
Acacia vilhelmii Domin, Biblioth. Bot . 89: 266 (1926). Type: in xerodrynario apud Cape False, Qld, Jan. 1910, K.Domin ‘5130’ ; holo: PR n.v ., fide L.Pedley, Austrobaileya 1: 158 (1978).
[ Acacia holcocarpa auct. non Benth.: F.Mueller, Fragm . 11: 69 (1880) and Iconogr. Austral. Acacia dec 11 [pl. 5] (1888)]
Illustrations
M.Simmons, Acacias Australia 1: 267 (1987); W.R.Elliot & D.L.Jones, Encycl. Austral. Pl . 2: 28 (1982).
Representative collections
Qld: 3.7 km E of Normanby R. crossing on Battle Camp road, D.F.Blaxell 89/152 et al. (NSW); 69.4 km by road NNW of Coen P.O., R.G.Coveny 7062 & P.D.Hind (BRI, CANB, K, MEL, NSW, QRS, US); Annan R. bridge, 8 km SW of Cooktown, R.G.Coveny 7191 & P.D.Hind (A, AD, BRI, CANB, K, NSW, PERTH, US); Herberton, L.Pedley 2306 (BRI, NSW).
(NSW)
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