Acacia repens A.S.George, J. Roy. Soc. Western Australia 82: 101 (1999)
Prostrate shrub to c. 1 m diam., glabrous or shortly hispid with white hairs on stems, peduncles and phyllodes. Stipules erect, subulate, 1.5–2 mm long. Phyllodes 6–9 per whorl, spreading to ascending, uncinate with mucro 0.2–0.5 mm long, terete, commonly 8–16 mm long, with 1 adaxial and 2 abaxial grooves. Peduncles 13–37 mm long, glabrous or sparsely or moderately hispid. Heads commonly 20–25-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.5 mm long, glabrous, the lobes triangular with prominent midrib; corolla 2–2.3 mm long, striate throughout, glabrous or shortly hispid. Pods stipitate, 1.5–5 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, glabrous; margins slightly thickened. Seeds (not seen mature) to 12 per pod, longitudinal; pleurogram open.
Known only from the type locality and from Jasper Gorge, N.T. Grows on steep sandstone hillsides with spinifex ( Triodia ) and shrubland. Flowers March.
Foliage bright green; branches purplish. Distinguished by the prostrate habit, typically sparse indumentum, uncinate phyllodes and prominently striate corolla. The N.T. collection is much more hairy than the type.
Related to A. hypermeces .
Type of accepted name
Carr Boyd Ra., 20 km ENE of Dunham R. Stn HS, W.A., 12 Mar. 1978, M.Lazarides 8519 ; holo: CANB, iso: BRI, CANB, DNA.
Representative collections
N.T.: Jasper Gorge, 5 km W of Jasper Ck on road to Timber Creek, B.R..Maslin 7485, M.McDonald & G.Leach (DNA, PERTH).
(ASG)
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