Acacia ammophila Pedley, Austrobaileya 1: 197 (1978)
Tree to 6 m high. Bark furrowed, dark grey. Branchlets apically white appressed-puberulous. Phyllodes linear, 10–20 cm long, 2.5–6 mm wide, acute to uncinate-acute, densely silvery appressed-puberulous (indumentum sparse on older phyllodes), with numerous closely parallel, obscure nerves. Inflorescences 2–4-headed racemes; raceme axes 1–4 mm long, densely appressed-puberulous; peduncles 7–12 mm long, appressed-puberulous; heads globular, 5 mm diam., 25–40-flowered, golden; bracteoles spathulate, acute. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods submoniliform, straight, to 20 cm long, 4–8 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to cartilaginous, longitudinally reticulate, minutely appressed-puberulous, glabrescent. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 10 mm long, dull, dark brown; funicle gradually expanded to minute aril.
Known only from near Adavale and near Thargomindah, southern inland Qld. Grows on lower slopes of red sand dunes and heavier alluvial soil in tall open shrubland with A. aneura or A. calcicola .
Affinities unclear.
Type of accepted name
Dynevor Lakes, 32 km E of Thargomindah, Qld, May 1971, D.E.Boyland 2901 ; holo: BRI; iso: BRI, CANB, MO, NSW, PERTH.
Synonymy
Racosperma ammophilum (Pedley) Pedley, Austrobaileya 2: 344 (1987). Type: as for accepted name.
Representative collection
Qld: Dynevor Lakes, Warrego District, S.L.Everist 7494 (BRI, K).
(RSC & BRM)
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