Acacia recurvata R.S.Cowan & Maslin, Nuytsia 12: 432 (1999)
Dense, domed, spreading shrub 0.5–2.5 m high. Branchlets glabrous or sparsely and minutely subappressed-hirsutellous with pale yellow hairs, very resinous when young. Stipules 0.5–1.5 mm long. Phyllodes inequilaterally narrow-elliptic (upper margin the more curved), subfalcate, rarely straight, 2.5–4 cm long, 4–8 mm wide, acute, dark green to dull grey-green, normally glabrous, with 5–10 longitudinal resinous nerves, anastomoses few; gland inconspicuous, basal. Inflorescences simple in axillary pairs or more commonly 1- or 2-headed rudimentary racemes; raceme axes 0.5–1 mm long and growing out at anthesis; peduncles 5–8 mm long, glabrous or hirsutellous with golden or white, appressed hairs, resinous; heads globular, 4.5–5 mm diam., 18–25-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous, resinous; sepals 1/2–3/4-united. Pods linear, to 6 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, resinous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, obloid, 3.5–4 mm long, dark brown; aril terminal.
Restricted to Coorow- Three Springs area, south-western W.A. Grows in sandy clay and hard granitic clay loam in Melaleuca uncinata shrubland on or near breakaways, or along watercourses in open Wandoo ( Eucalyptus wandoo ) woodland.
Similar to A. vittata which has longitudinally striped branchlets and strongly undulate pods.
Type of accepted name
c. 9 km E of Winchester, W.A., 20 June 1977, C.Chapman s.n .; holo: PERTH; iso: CANB.
Representative collections
W.A.: 10 km due N of Coorow, road No. 43, 2.5 km of road No. 5, B.R.Maslin 6580 (K, MEL, PERTH); Dookanooka Nature Reserve, c. 15 km due SW of Three Springs, S.Patrick 1367 (PERTH).
(RSC & BRM)
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