Acacia camptoclada C.R.P.Andrews, J. Western Australia Nat. Hist. Soc . 1: 39 (May 1904), non E.Pritzel (Dec. 1904)
Spreading, glabrous shrub normally 0.2–1 m high. Branchlets often slightly viscid or vernicose. Stipules caducous. Phyllodes crowded, on slight stem-projections, ascending to erect, asymmetrically oblong-oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, with straight lower margin and with upper margin rounded at least near mucro, 7–17 mm long, 2–5 mm wide, obliquely mucronate to excentrically rostellate, with pungent mucro, green to glaucous, 1-nerved per face; lateral nerves few and obscure; gland at or above middle of phyllode. Inflorescences 2–5-headed racemes, enclosed when young by scarious brown bracts, frequently crowded in upper axils; raceme axes 1–4 mm long; peduncles 4–15 mm long, slender; heads showy, globular, 15–21-flowered, golden; bracteoles absent. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods once- or twice-coiled, sometimes irregularly so, 4–5 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, sometimes pruinose. Seeds longitudinal, ovate to elliptic, c. 3 mm long, slightly shiny, black, exarillate.
Occurs from Southern Cross and Newdegate E to Kanandah Stn and near Balladonia, W.A. Grows in sand or loamy clay, in Eucalyptus woodland and mallee communities.
A member of the ‘ A. prainii group’ where it is most closely allied to A. prainii and A. dorsenna .
Type of accepted name
near Dundas, W.A., Oct. 1903, herb. Cecil Andrews ; holo: NSW; iso: K, NSW, PERTH; see B.R.Maslin & R.S.Cowan, Nuytsia 9: 384 (1994), for discussion of types.
Synonymy
Acacia porphyrochila E.Pritz., Bot. Jahrb. Syst . 35: 299 (Dec. 1904). Type: near Gilmores, W.A., L.Diels 5876 ; n.v.
Illustration
M.Simmons, Acacias Australia 85 (1981).
Representative collections
W.A.: Gilmores, L.Diels 5281 (PERTH); 41 km N of Trans-line on W boundary fence of Kanandah Stn, Nullabor, G.J.Keighery 573 & J.J.Alford (PERTH); 24.5 km S of Mt Holland, B.R.Maslin 3947 (CANB, K, PERTH); 30 km W of Ponier Rock, c. 80 km SW of Balladonia Motel, Eyre Hwy, K.Newbey 7316 (PERTH).
(BRM)
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