Acacia georgensis Tindale, Telopea 1: 446; 447, pl. 25 (1980)
Shrub to tree, 3–12 m high. Bark fissured or shaggy-furrowed. Branchlets angled towards apices otherwise terete, smooth, sometimes red-squamulose, often pruinose. Phyllodes somewhat dimorphic, very narrowly elliptic, falcate, 7.4–16.8 cm long, 15–30 mm wide, coriaceous, red-squamulose when young, with 3 main prominent and 2 subprominent nerves continuous to base, the minor nerves rarely anastomosing, 3–7 per mm; gland 1, 1–3 mm above pulvinus. Spikes (1–) 2–3.5 cm long, pale yellow. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.4–0.6 mm long, dissected to 1/10, with pale yellow- or white-hyaline hairs on tube (especially near base) and minute red-resin hairs on lobes (mainly at apices); corolla 1.6–2 mm long, split almost to base, glabrous; ovary densely white-pubescent. Pods linear, slightly constricted and raised over seeds, 2–6.5 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, 3–4.5 mm long, black; areole open.
Occurs on the South Coast and adjacent tablelands, N.S.W., from Wadbilliga Ck to Tathra. Grows on hillsides facing N or W or on rocky headlands in open forest or in sclerophyll scrub, mainly on granite or rhyolite. Flowers Aug.–Oct.
See A. blakei .
Type of accepted name
Dr George Mtn, N.S.W., 27 Aug. 1977, C.Wheeler ; holo: NSW; iso: BRI, CANB, K, MEL.
Synonymy
Racosperma georgense (Tindale) Pedley, Bot. J. Linn. Soc . 92: 248 (1986). Type: as for accepted name.
Illustration
M.D.Tindale, loc. cit .; T.Tame, Acacias SE Australia 49, fig. 26; pl. 26 (1992).
Representative collections
N.S.W.: Dr George Mtn, 6 km c. E of Bega on Bermagui Rd, R.G.Coveny 7306 (AD, BRI, CANB, MEL, NSW, PERTH, US); Kianinny Bay, S of Tathra, M.Parris 8864 (CANB, NSW); Wadbilliga Ck, 13 km NW of Yowrie, A.N.Rodd 4316 (AD, CANB, NSW).
(NSW)
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