Acacia curranii Maiden (as ‘Currani’), J. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New South Wales 49: 492 (1916)
Curly-bark Wattle
Multistemmed shrub to 3 m high. Bark ‘Minni Ritchi’, maroon or grey. Branchlets angular towards apices, maroon-grey, silky-pubescent or subglabrous. Young shoots with appressed, yellow hairs. Phyllodes erect, linear, subterete or flattened, 8.5–18 cm long, 0.7–1.5 mm wide, thick, longitudinally striate with c. 25 closely parallel veins, usually shallowly grooved along midline between several raised veins, silky (especially in goove and between veins) to subglabrous; gland 1, basal, to 2.3 mm above pulvinus. Spikes obloid, 0.4–1.2 cm long, golden. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.9–1.3 mm long, dissected for 3/10– 5/8, the lobes densely pubescent; corolla 1.3–1.8 mm long, dissected for 1/3–1/2, the lobes pubescent, with papillose margins; ovary densely pubescent. Pods linear, flat, +/-straight-sided to slightly constricted between seeds, 4–7 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, with loosely matted hairs. Seeds longitudinal, narrow oblong-elliptic, 3–3.3 mm long, dark brown; pleurogram U-shaped, with yellowish halo; areole depressed, greyish brown.
Disjunct distribution, occurring near Guralmundi, Darling Downs District, Qld, in poorly drained soils over sandstone, and at Shepherds Hill and Kilparney, South Western Plains, N.S.W., in skeletal soil on igneous hills. Flowers Aug. & Sept.
The locality ‘Cobar’ for the type specimen is rather doubtful, as material of A. curranii has not been collected there again, or between Cobar and Shepherds Hill or Kilparney.
A broad (to 4 mm wide), flat phyllode variant occurs E of Hillston, N.S.W., e.g. Wollongong Gap, 35 km E of Hillston, J.Brickhill 6 (NSW); Monia Gap Stn, J.Pickard 4223 (AD, BRI, CANB, CHR, E, G, K, MEL, MO, NE, NSW, NY, PERTH, PRE, UNSW).
Type of accepted name
Cobar (see below), N.S.W., 1887, Rev. J.Milne Curran ; holo: MEL; iso: NSW.
Synonymy
Racosperma curranii (Maiden) Pedley, Austrobaileya 2: 347 (1987). Type: as for accepted name.
Acacia cyperophylla F.Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Austral . 2: 400 (1864), p.p. , not as to lectotype, as to the Leichhardt paralectotype, fide L.Pedley, Austrobaileya 1: 127 (1978).
Illustrations
F.Mueller, Iconogr. Austral. Acacia dec. 10 [pl. 6] (1888), as A. cyperophylla , fide J.H.Maiden, op. cit. 494; G.M.Cunningham et al ., Pl. W. New South Wales 351 (1981); M.Simmons, Acacias Australia 2: 223 (1988).
Representative collections
Qld: 10.6 km W from Gurulmundi turnoff on Wandoan–Miles road, I.B.Armitage 1453 (NSW); 3 miles [4.8 km] W of Gurulmundi on Dividing Ra., L.Pedley 877 (BRI, NSW). N.S.W.: ‘Mt Solitary’, Kilparney, D.Johnston 8132 (NSW); Shepherds Hill, J.Pickard 3508 (A, AD, BRI, CANB, G, L, UC, US).
(NSW)
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