Acacia distans Maslin, Nuytsia 4: 386, figs 3, 4 & 14 (1983)
Tree to 8 m high. Bark fibrous, fissured, grey. Branchlets sometimes pendulous, slender, glabrous. New shoots citron-sericeous when young; hairs aging to silver. Phyllodes linear, curved, 6–10 (–15) cm long, 4–10 (–11.5) mm wide, acute, innocuous, thinly coriaceous, grey-green, appressed-puberulous (hairs sparse with age), finely striate with central nerve slightly more evident than rest. Inflorescences normally rudimentary 2-headed racemes with axes 0.5–1 mm long; peduncles (5–) 8–12 mm long, appressed-puberulous; spikes to 11 cm long, 4–5 mm diam., interrupted, the flowers in clusters along receptacle, golden, ; receptacle appressed-puberulous, the indumentum sometimes sparse. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 1/5–1/6 length of petals, cupular, c. 1/2-united; petals sparsely hairy. Pods linear, slightly raised over and shallowly constricted between seeds, to 14 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, thin-crustose, sparsely appressed-puberulous at maturity. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic to broadly elliptic, 6 mm long, glossy, dark brown, aril small.
Discontinuous, occurring around the upper reaches of the Lyndon, Fortescue, Gascoyne and Murchison Rivers, north-western W.A. Grows on loamy, alluvial plains in low woodland and shrubland, often in pure stands.
Perhaps most closely related to A. shirleyi . Similar in general appearance to some forms of A. aneura and other species of that group.
Type of accepted name
Gascoyne R. crossing, 3 km S of Landor Stn HS, W.A., 7 May 1982, B.R.Maslin 5183 ; holo: PERTH; iso: BRI, CANB, K, MEL, NSW, NY.
Illustrations
B.R.Maslin, Nuytsia 4: 388 & 390 (1983).
Representative collections
W.A.: Dale paddock, Towera Stn, R.J.Cranfield 1749a (MEL, PERTH); Murchison R., Beringarra, N.H.Speck 656 (BRI, MEL, PERTH); Fortescue R. crossing on new Great Northern Hwy, L.Thomson LXT 1120 (PERTH).
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