Acacia mountfordiae Specht (as ‘mountfordae’), Rec. Amer.-Austral. Exped. Arnhem Land 3: 233, fig. 5 (1958)
Multistemmed, pruinose shrub or tree to 4 m high. Bark fibrous, dark grey. Branchlets terete except near apices, light brown, glabrous. Phyllodes semilunate, flat, straight or slightly curved, 2.5–5.5 cm long, 10–22 mm wide, coriaceous, glabrous, with 2–5 indistinct main veins, the minor veins 6–8 per mm, fine, strongly anastomosing; gland 1, basal, to 1 mm above pulvinus. Spikes 3–4.5 cm long, golden. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.5–0.7 mm long, dissected to base, lower half pubescent; corolla 1–1.2 mm long, dissected to 1/2, glabrous; ovary glabrous. Pods narrowly oblong, curved, 3.5–4.5 cm long, thickly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds oblique, 3 mm long, black; pleurogram with halo present; areole open, pale; aril terminal.
Restricted to the vicinity of Oenpelli Mission, N.T., where it is relatively common at the base of or on top of sandstone escarpments. Flowers late June–late Sept.
Type of accepted name
Oenpelli, N.T., Sept. 1948, R.L.Specht 1097 ; holo: BRI; iso: NSW, PERTH.
Illustration
J.Brock, Top End Native Pl. 68 (1988).
Representative collections
N.T.: East Alligator R., N.Byrnes 913 (DNA, NSW, PERTH); WSW of Nabalek, C.R.Dunlop 4973 (BRI, DNA, MEL, NSW, PERTH); 8 km SW of Oenpelli, J.R.Maconochie 1602 (NSW, NT, PERTH).
(NSW)
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