Acacia courtii Tindale & Herscovitch, Telopea 4: 115 fig. 1 (1990)
Tree to 20 m high. Branchlets pendulous, slender, brittle. Stipules caducous, deltate, less than 0.5 mm long. Phyllodes linear, commonly straight, 5–18 cm. long, 5–12 mm wide, hooked, flexible, mostly glaucous, with several veins, one often prominent, anastomoses of smaller veins few to numerous; gland minute, basal; pulvinus present. Inflorescences with peduncles 3–5 mm long; spikes paired or solitary, 3–6.5 cm long; bracteoles stipitate, spathulate, concave, 0.7 mm long. Flowers loosely packed, 4-merous; sepals united. Pods linear, usually straight, woody. Seeds oblong-elliptic, 5.5–7.8 mm long, shiny, brown; funicle filiform, folded 4–8 times; aril small, more or less oblique.
Very restricted in distribution and found only in three localities in coastal ranges near Laurieton, N.S.W., where it occurs principally on rocky hillsides in dry forests and woodlands. Flowers Nov.–Jan. and fruits during Nov.
Distinguished from A. longifolia by its conspicuous pendulous foliage and its very pale flowers and from all species in the ‘ A. longifolia group’ by its very brittle stems. See also A. longissima .
Type of accepted name
North Brother Mountain, 27 km SW of Port Macquarie, N.S.W., 16 Nov. 1978, K.J.Phillis for A.G.Floyd 1157 ; holo: NSW; iso: BRI, CANB.
Illustrations
M.D.Tindale & C.Herscovitch, loc. cit. ; T.Tame, Acacias SE Australia 38, pl. 12 (1992).
Representative collections
N.S.W.: Laurieton, K.J.Phillis s.n. (CANB, MEL, NSW); Compartment 138, Middle Brother State Forest, 25 Jan. 1981, K.J.Phillis s.n. (CANB, MEL, NSW).
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