Acacia cedroides Benth., Linnaea 26: 615 (1855)
Dense shrub 0.3–1 m high. Branchlets finely striate-ribbed, puberulous or appressed-puberulous. Stipules linear-triangular, 1.5–4 mm long. Phyllodes verticillate, inclined to ascending, commonly shallowly incurved, pentagonal to compressed, 1–3 (- 4) cm long, 0.8–1.3 mm wide, with oblique, pungent apex, rather rigid, green, normally glabrous, 5-nerved, deeply sulcate between nerves when dry. Inflorescences simple; peduncles 7–13 mm long, glabrous to puberulous; heads globular, 15–25-flowered, cream to pale yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods terete, to 5 cm long, 2.5–3.5 mm wide, acuminate, thinly crustaceous-coriaceous, curved (especially upon dehiscence), red-brown, coarsely striate, minutely appressed-puberulous to glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 4–5 mm long, light greyish brown; aril terminal, conical.
Confined to the Fitzgerald R. Natl Park, SW of Ravensthorpe, south-western W.A. Grows on quartzite hills in heath or open shrubland.
Included by L.Pedley, Contr. Queensland Herb . 11: 11 (1972), as an atypical member of the ‘ A. lycopodiifolia group’; however, its closest affinities are with A. laricina , fide B.R.Maslin, Nuytsia 2: 101 (1976). It is also related to A. rhamphophylla and is sometimes confused with A. simulans (which like A. cedroides has verticillate phyllodes).
Type of accepted name
Swan R., W.A., J.Drummond 4: 4 ; holo: K; iso: BM, FI, G, K, MEL, OXF, TCD; probable iso: NSW.
Illustrations
F. von Mueller, Iconogr. Austral. Acacia dec. 3 (1887); M.Simmons, Acacias Australia 2: 71 (1988).
Representative collections
W.A.: West Mt Barren, R.Coveny 3312 et al . (NSW, PERTH); top of East Mt Barren, R.J.Cumming 1062 (PERTH); W side of Mt Maxwell, B.R.Maslin 3476 (PERTH).
(BRM)
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