Acacia campylophylla Benth., Linnaea 26: 605 (1855)
Dense, rigid shrub 0.1–0.6 m high. Branchlets ribbed and sometimes pruinose at extremities, glabrous. Stipules persistent, ascending to spreading, spinose, subulate to acicular, 0.5–1.5 mm long, rigid. Phyllodes continuous with branchlets but not forming cauline wings, spreading, strongly recurved, subterete to compressed, mostly 10–20 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, pungent, rigid, glaucous at first, glabrous except nerves micro-papillate, prominently 8-nerved, 3-nerved per face when compressed. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles mostly 8–12 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 4–6 mm diam., 26–31-flowered; bracteoles spathulate, acuminate, dark brown, evident in buds. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods narrowly oblong, strongly raised over seeds, straight, to 3.7 cm long, 4–7.5 mm wide, chartaceous, glabrous. Seeds transverse, broadly elliptic, 2.5 mm long, dull, tan with darker mottling; aril subapical, crested.
Scattered from Bolgart and Wyalkatchem S to near Corrigin, W.A. Grows in often gravelly sand or loam or on laterite outcrops, in woodland or heath.
The Drummond ‘n. 41 of some other set’ referred to by G.Bentham, Fl. Austral . 2: 326 (1864), as this species is A. acellerata , judging from a duplicate at Herb. NSW (sheet NSW216948).
Related most closely to A. chapmanii and A. curvata ; similar in phyllodes to A. wilsonii .
Type of accepted name
Interior of south western Australia, W.A., 1849, J.Drummond 134 ; holo: K; iso: MEL, NSW, PERTH.
Representative collections
W.A.: 4 km N of Dowerin towards Cadoux, R.Cumming 1850 (CANB, PERTH); 18 km WNW of York, G.J.Keighery & J.Alford 172 (PERTH); c. 19 km S of Tammin, B.R.Maslin 602 (MEL, PERTH); 10 km N of Corrigin towards York, E.Pignatti 417 (PERTH).
(RSC & BRM)
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