Acacia laccata Pedley, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 75: 31 (1964)
Vernicose shrub to 4 m high. Bark longitudinally fissured, flaky, dark brown. Upper branchlets slightly angular, otherwise terete, coarse, glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly to very narrowly elliptic, sometimes oblanceolate, oblique towards base, 9–18.5 cm long, 20–50 mm wide, glabrous when mature, with 3 or 4 prominent and 4 or 5 subprominent nerves (sometimes confluent with dorsal margin at base), the minor nerves 5 or 6 per mm, not anastomosing; gland 1, basal. Spikes 2–5 cm long. Flowers 5-merous; calyx persistent, 0.9–1.3 mm long, dissected to 1/4, glabrous; corolla 2.1–2.7 mm long, with free, glabrous petals; ovary densely yellow-villose. Pods linear, slightly constricted between seeds, 3–7 cm long, 6–8 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic, 4–5 mm long, dark brown; areole open.
Occurs in tropical W.A., north-eastern N.T. and far north-western Qld N of 23S. Grows in sandy soils or ironstone gravel, often in eucalypt woodland. Flowers May–Sept.
Allied to A. gonoclada which has smaller, non-vernicose phyllodes 9–12 cm long.
Type of accepted name
‘Corinda’, c. 85 miles [136 km] N of Aramac, Qld, June 1949, S.L.Everist 3860 ; holo: BRI.
Synonymy
Racosperma laccatum (Pedley) Pedley, Austrobaileya 2: 350 (1987). Type: as for accepted name.
Illustrations
K.A.W.Williams, Native Pl. Queensland 3: 5 (1987); M.Simmons, Acacias Australia 2: 279 (1988).
Representative collections
W.A.: 37 miles [59 km] from Bedford Downs Stn, C.H.Gittins 1426 (NSW, PERTH). N.T.: 133.5 km N of Flynn Memorial and Stuart Hwy, W.Bateman 80/2 (BRI, FRI, NSW). Qld: 32 km E of Hughenden, N.H.Speck 4522 (CANB, NSW); 36.8 km from Port Hedland, C.H.Gittins 1466 (NSW); 30.9 miles [49.7 km S] of Prairie on Muttaburra road, P.D.Hind 1065 & C.K.Ingram (BRI, CANB, K, NSW).
(NSW)
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