Acacia chrysochaeta Maslin, Nuytsia 4: 367; 369, fig. 1 & 379, fig. 6 (1983)
Erect, spindly shrub to 1.5 m high. Branchlets terete, brown, yellowish towards apices, finely veined, densely tomentose. Phyllodes closely pressed to stems, linear, flat, 2–4.5 cm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, with curved, 1–3 mm long apical seta, softy puberulous, with 1 prominent main vein, the minor veins 4 per mm, parallel, not anastomosing; gland 1, basal, 1–1.5 mm above pulvinus. Spikes 2.5–3 cm long, dense. Flowers 5- or rarely 6-merous, markedly pale golden- (later white-) tomentose; calyx 1–1.3 mm long, cut to 2/3; corolla 1.5 mm long, cut to 1/2–2/3. Pods narrowly oblong, almost straight-sided, straight to shallowly curved, 4.5–6 cm long, densely golden- (later white-) tomentose, appearing greenish yellow. Seeds oblique, oblong, 4.5–5 mm long, black; pleurogram obscure, with pale halo.
Restricted to remote areas of north W.A., Kimberley region, from the Gibb River and Karungie Stns. Grows in eucalypt savannah with Annual Sorghum and in sandy alluvium besides watercourses. Flowers late May–early June & Nov.
Allied to A. kelleri and A. dacrydioides .
Type of accepted name
21 miles [33.8 km] N of Gibb R. HS, W.A., 27 May 1971, N.Byrnes 2273 ; holo: PERTH; iso: K, NSW, NT.
Illustrations
B.R.Maslin, op. cit. 369, fig. 1.
Representative collections
W.A.: 21 miles [33.6 km] N of Gibb River Stn, J.R.Maconochie 1294 & 1295 (DNA, NSW); 32 miles [51.2 km] NE of Karungie Stn [now known as Pentecost Downs Stn], R.A.Perry 3089 & M.Lazarides (BRI, CANB, NSW).
(NSW)
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