Acacia fauntleroyi (Maiden) Maiden & Blakely, J. Roy. Soc. W. Australia 13: 26; pl. 18, figs 1- 7 (1928)
Shrub or small tree 2- 7 m high. Bark ‘Minni-Ritchi’. Branchlets silvery appressed-pubescent with silky hairs, sometimes resinous. Phyllodes linear, substraight to shallowly incurved but often shallowly recurved towards apex, 8- 20 cm long, 1.5- 4 mm wide, not rigid, silvery- to grey-green, appressed-pubescent with silky hairs, with (3- ) 7- 9 raised nerves on each face. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 4- 9.5 mm long, appressed-pubescent; heads obloid to short-cylindrical, 7- 15 mm long, 5.5- 7 mm diam., 43- 49-flowered, golden; receptacle with dense, spreading hairs. Flowers 5-merous; sepals and petals 1/2- 3/4-united. Pods linear, slightly raised over seeds, straight to slightly curved, to 10 cm long, 5 mm wide, coriaceous, silvery subappressed-pilose. Seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic or oblong, 3.5- 4 mm long, subglossy, light to dark brown; pleurogram double; aril apical.
Occurs from Wongan Hills and Bonnie Rock S to Hyden, inland south-western W.A. Grows on or around granite outcrops, in scrub and shrubland.
The number of phyllode nerves per face appears to be a function of phyllode width.
Related to A. oncinophylla .
Type of accepted name
Uberin Hill [Rock], Dowerin, W.A., 1917 & 1918, C.A.Fauntleroy ; syn: K, NSW (numerous sheets); Yarragin [Mt Stevens], W.A., F.Stoward 155 ; syn: NSW.
Synonymy
Acacia oncinophylla var. fauntleroyi Maiden, J. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New South Wales 53: 214 (1920). Type: as for accepted name.
Illustrations
J.H.Maiden & W.F.Blakely, loc. cit .
Representative collections
W.A.: The Humps, S.D.Hopper 4409 (PERTH); Muntadgin Rock, B.R.Maslin 1818 (CANB, NSW, PERTH); Wattengutten, B.H.Smith 661 (PERTH).
(RSC & BRM)
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