Acacia dacrydioides Tindale, Telopea 1: 77 (1975)
Arching, spreading shrub, 2–2.5 m high. Branchlets terete, fawn to red-brown, villous. Phyllodes linear, subterete, 0.6–1.3 cm long, 0.2–0.5 mm wide, with fine and often bent apical mucro 1–2 mm long, minutely tuberculate, sparsely villous, the midvein median and groove-like; gland 1, minute, basal. Spikes 0.8–2.2 cm long. Flowers 5-merous; calyx c. 1.5 mm long, cut 1/3–1/2, the apices sparsely villous; corolla 1–2 mm long, deeply dissected into strongly veined petals, glabrous or sparsely villous near apex; ovary sparsely villous. Pods submoniliform, 6–8 cm long, to 5 mm wide, glabrous, with dark red-brown, longitudinally ribbed valves; margins unthickened. Seeds longitudinal.
Occurs in W.A. near Kalumburu Mission, King Edward R. District. Grows amongst sandstone rocks, on quartzite ridges amongst boulders in mixed woodland or on river banks in deep sand. Flowers Mar. & May.
It is allied to A. kelleri and A. chrysochaeta which also occur in remote northern areas of W.A.
Type of accepted name
King Edward R. Crossing, Kalumburu Mission, W.A., 30 May 1971, J.R.Maconochie 1258 ; holo: NSW; iso: NT.
Illustration
J.R.Wheeler, in J.R.Wheeler (ed.) et al ., Fl. Kimberley Region 316, fig. 91A (1992).
Representative collections
W.A.: 2 miles [3.2 km] N [of] Kalumburu Mission, N.Byrnes 2301 (NSW, NT); King Edward R., C.R.Dunlop 5373 (BRI, DNA, PERTH).
(NSW)
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