Acacia vincentii R.S.Cowan & Maslin, Nuytsia 7: 207; 203, fig. 1T (1990)
Shrub 3 m high with long, arching branches. Branchlets terete, glandular-puberulous. Stipules persistent, setaceous, united basally, 2–2.5 mm long, upcurved. Phyllodes ascending to erect, inequilaterally oblong-oblanceolate, with upper margin conspicuously rounded between apex and gland, 4.5–5 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, with mucronate-pungent apex, coriaceous, puberulous, with 2 or 3 distant, slightly raised nerves and occasional anastomoses; gland about middle of adaxial margin. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 9–9.5 mm long, puberulous with many hairs gland-tipped; heads obloid, 5.5 mm diam., 41-flowered; bracteoles long-exserted in buds, spathulate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 1/2-united. Pods narrowly oblong, with one or both margins crenate, curved, to 5.5 cm long, 5–10 mm wide, crustaceous, obliquely reticulate, densely glandular-puberulous. Seeds (immature) oblique, black, shiny; aril small, apical.
Known only by the type collection from Edkins Ra., West Kimberley, W.A. Collected from sandstone plateau.
Nearest A. deltoidea subsp. deltoidea which has larger phyllodes of different shape, non-exserted bracteoles, globular flower-heads and non-crenate pods.
Type of accepted name
Edkins Ra., West Kimberley Region, W.A., Aug. 1905, W.V.Fitzgerald 1421 ; holo: NSW; iso: NSW, PERTH.
Illustrations
L.Pedley, Austrobaileya 2: 317, fig. 1J–K (1987), as Racosperma deltoideum (aberrant individual); R.S.Cowan & B.R.Maslin, loc. cit .
(RSC)
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