Acacia diaphana R.S.Cowan & Maslin, Nuytsia 12: 420 (1999)
Bushy, spreading, shrub 1.5–3 m high. Branchlets angular at apices, becoming terete, resin-ribbed, glabrous or minutely white appressed-puberulous. Phyllodes ascending, linear, straight to shallowly incurved, 3.2–7 cm long, 2.5–4 mm wide, attenuate basally, obtuse with minute, blunt, slightly excentric mucro, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; midrib and marginal nerves obviously resinous, the resin often in obvious droplets, and rarely with a few, scattered penninerves; gland basal. Inflorescences (1- ) 2–6-headed racemes; raceme axes 2–8 mm long, densely appressed white-puberulous, resinous; peduncles 2–5 mm long, densely appressed white-puberulous, resinous; heads globular, 3.5–4.5 mm diam., 15–20-flowered, golden, resinous; bracteoles spathulate. Flowers 5-merous; perianth diaphanous; sepals free. Pods and seeds not seen.
Localised in an area NW of Mt Ragged, c. 130 km NE of Esperance, W.A. Grows in clay or sandy loam in small to large wet or waterlogged depressions, often with Eucalyptus occidentalis .
Relationships unknown.
Type of accepted name
32 km NW of Mt Ragged, W.A., 15 Sept. 1990, W.Archer 15099011 ; holo: PERTH; iso: CANB, K.
Representative collections
W.A.: 53.5 km NW of Mt Ragged, W. Archer 22099023 (PERTH, NY); c. 1.3 km due N of Clyde Hill, 19 Sept. 1984, H. Smolinski (PERTH).
(RSC & BRM)
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