Acacia kerryana Maslin, Nuytsia 4: 105; 106, fig. 1 & 112, fig. 3 (1982)
Low, spreading, dense shrub 0.5- 1 m high. Branchlets flexuose towards apices, slightly ribbed, often sparsely antrorsely strigulose. Phyllodes sessile, decurrent, tortuous, terete, 8- 16 cm long, 0.4- 0.6 mm diam., with attenuate, often strongly curved apex, glabrous, with 8 distant, equal, raised nerves; gland inconspicuous, c. 4 cm above base. Inflorescences simple, 2 or 3 per axil; peduncles 6- 13 mm long, glabrous; heads obloid to short-cylindrical, 6- 9 mm long, 3- 4 mm diam., subdense, light golden. Flowers 4-merous; sepals united. Pods linear, twisted, to 8.5 cm long, 2 mm wide, chartaceous, glabrous. Seeds not seen.
Scattered distribution from near Kambalda S to L. Cronin and Norseman, W.A. Grows in shallow loam on low rocky hills in low open shrubland.
Type of accepted name
1 km S of Spargoville, c. 45 km S of Coolgardie, on the road to Norseman, W.A., 16 Feb. 1981, B.R.Maslin 4834 ; holo: PERTH; iso: CANB, G, K, MEL, NY.
Illustrations
B.R.Maslin, op. cit. 106, fig. 1.
Representative collections
W.A.: Bremer Ra., B.R.Maslin 5519 (PERTH); near Jimberlana Hill, 8 km NE of Norseman, K.Newbey 8099 (NSW, PERTH).
(ARC & BRM)
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