Acacia erioclada Benth., Linnaea 26: 606 (1855)
Intricate, spreading shrub to 0.5 m high. Branchlets spinose, minutely woolly to appressed-pubescent, glabrescent. Stipules setaceous to narrowly triangular. Phyllodes patent to prominently reflexed, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong, 4–7.5 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, pungent, with indumentum as on branchlets; midrib prominent; pulvinus distinct. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 1.5–8 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 18–22-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, dark brown towards apex. Pods narrowly oblong, to 3 cm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, tan, glabrous to subglabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 2.2–2.7 mm long, turgid, narrowed towards periphery, tan, obscurely mottled, arillate.
Scattered from near Watheroo SE to near Bruce Rock, south-western W.A. Grows in sand in heathland or in rocky clay.
Resembling the uncommon broad phyllode forms of A. sessilis .
Type of accepted name
Swan R., J.Drummond 4: 7 ; holo: K; iso: BM, CGE, FI, G, K, NSW, OXF, P, PERTH, TCD.
Representative collections
W.A.: 11 km N of Watheroo on Geraldton Hwy, B.R.Maslin 4491 (MEXU, PERTH); Bruce Rock, Oct. 1932, E.T.Bailey s.n. (PERTH).
(BRM)
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