Acacia kenneallyi R.S.Cowan & Maslin, Nuytsia 10: 64 (1995)
Weak tree or shrub 2–7 m high. Branchlets terete, pruinose, glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly elongate-elliptic to linear, straight to shallowly curved, 15–25 cm long, 6–14 mm wide, attenuate at base, acute to acuminate, coriaceous, glabrous, with a prominent central nerve, with a second weaker, longitudinal nerve sometimes present; secondary nerves reticulate; marginal nerves discrete and yellow; lowermost gland basal, 1–4 smaller glands on upper marginal nerve; pulvinus 4–5 mm long, pruinose. Inflorescences in axillary or terminal racemes, or simple; raceme axes 2–10 cm long, pruinose, glabrous; peduncles 1–4 in phyllode axils or at nodes along raceme axes, 8–25 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 5 mm diam., densely 46–56-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 3/4-united, apically densely puberulous with white and pale yellow hairs; petal indumentum as on sepal apices. Pods stipitate, linear, straight, flat, to 11 cm long, 10–11 mm wide, coriaceous to subwoody, openly reticulate, glabrous; margins thickened. Seeds (immature) oblique; aril apical, galeiform.
Restricted to the Bonaparte Archipelago area from Heywood Is. NE to Bigge Is. and the nearby mainland, northern W.A. Grows in sand over sandstone and also on dolermite, usually in eucalypt woodland.
Related to A. latescens which has non-pruinose branchlets, clearly 2-nerved phyllodes, cream to pale yellow heads in short, axillary racemes, glabrous to subglabrous petals, somewhat broader pods and relatively small arils.
Type of accepted name
On mainland 8.3 km E and across from Savage Hill on Bigge Is., W.A., 5 June 1987, K.F.Kenneally 10167 & B.P.M.Hyland ; holo: PERTH; iso: CANB, K.
Representative collections
W.A.: Naturalist Is., Prince Frederick Harbour, K.F.Kenneally 9931 (MEL, PERTH); Byam Martin Is., Bonaparte Archipelago, P.G.Wilson 11467 (PERTH).
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