Acacia speckii R.S.Cowan & Maslin, Nuytsia 12: 465 (1999)
Bushy shrub or small tree 2–3 m high. Branchlets terete, glabrous, grey. Phyllodes erect, straight to shallowly incurved, often bent at gland, terete, mostly 8–12 cm long, 1–1.5 mm diam., +/- pungent, rigid, subglaucous, glabrous, with 8 distant, strongly raised nerves. Inflorescences (judging from very young buds) simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 5–10 mm long (in fruit), glabrous. Heads (judging from fruiting receptacles) broadly ellipsoid to obloid. Pods moniliform, shallowly curved, to 13.5 cm long, 4–6 mm wide, chartaceous, light brown, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, globular, equatorially ridged, umbonate at apex, 5 mm diam., dull, brown; aril minute.
Known only from between Meekatharra and Cue and near Yalgoo (which is c. 150 km SW of Cue), in south-western W.A. Collected in mulga scrub on low hills underlaid by basalt, granite or dolerite.
Relationships unclear but may be related to A. obtecta .
Type of accepted name
16 miles [25.6 km] SW of Nannine, W.A., 8 Sept. 1957, N.H.Speck 718 ; holo: PERTH; iso: CANB, K, MEL.
Representative collections
W.A.: 4.2 km E of Yalgoo, R.J.Cumming 1979 (K, PERTH); 43.5 km W of Yalgoo towards Mullewa, B.R.Maslin 3621 (PERTH); Norie Stn, A.A.Mitchell 979 (AD, BRI, G, PERTH); 10 km W of Coodardy Stn HS, A.A.Mitchell 1337 (PERTH).
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