Acacia ingrata Benth., Fl. Austral . 2: 331 (1864)
Much-branched, diffuse shrub normally 0.2–0.5 m high. Bark light grey. Branchlets hirsutellous or glabrous. Stipule bases commonly persisting as tooth-like projections. Phyllodes subdistant, sessile, patent to slightly reflexed, narrowly triangular to linear or narrowly oblong, 6.5–20 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, pungent, green, glabrous or subglabrous; midrib not prominent; gland basal. Inflorescences mostly 1- or 2-headed racemes; raceme axes 1–2 mm long, often growing out at anthesis; peduncles 3–7 mm long, glabrous or subglabrous; heads sparse, globular, 5–7-flowered, cream to white. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 1/3–1/2-united, c. 1/4 length of petals; petals nerveless. Pods submoniliform, to 5 cm long, 4–5.5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, finely longitudinally reticulate, glabrous, dehiscing along adaxial suture. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic, 4.5–6 mm long, dull, dark brown; aril conical, terminal.
Occurs from Middle Mt Barren E to the Young R., south-western W.A. Grows in often rocky or lateritic clay or clay loam in Mallee scrub or heath.
Related to A. plautella . The Murchison R., Oldfield specimen ( n.v. ) referred to by G.Bentham in the protologue of A. ingrata is probably A. andrewsii .
Type of accepted name
E Mt Barren, W.A., [G.Maxwell] 229 ; syn: MEL, also BM & CANB but annotated ‘on E. Mt Barren and the Phillips Ranges’, G.Maxwell 229 ; south west coast and interior of W.A., G.Maxwell s.n. ; syn: MEL (specimen seen by Bentham), NSW.
Representative collections
W.A.: Bandelup Ck, E of Ravensthorpe, K.M.Allan 165 (MEL, NSW, PERTH); Kundip, C.A.Gardner 2943 (BM, PERTH); 0.8 km W of Young R. Crossing, Ravensthorpe- Esperance road, B.R.Maslin 2552 (AD, CANB, K, NY, PERTH).
(BRM)
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