Acacia holotricha Pedley, Austrobaileya 1: 275 (1980)
Shrub or tree 5–10 m high, generally velvety-villous throughout. Branchlets ribbed, dark coloured. Stipules linear or widely ovate, 3–6 mm long, indurate. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic, 12–17 cm long, 3.6–6 cm wide, unequal at base, acute at apex; indumentum sometimes sparse; midrib prominent and contiguous with lower margin for c. 5 mm above the prominent pulvinus; lateral nerves prominent and openly anastomosing; gland 3–19 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences 7–10-headed racemes; raceme axes 3–9 cm long; peduncles 2–6 mm long, stout in fruit; heads globular, c. 50-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. 2/3-united; petals appressed-puberulous at apices. Pods linear, rounded over seeds and slightly constricted between them, to 18 cm long, 8–9 mm wide, thinly coriaceous. Seeds longitudinal, fide protologue.
Known only from the type locality and 200 km further N in the Duaringa area, south-eastern Qld.
Hybrids between A. bancroftiorum and A. macradenia resemble A. holotricha but are distinguished by their sparser indumentum.
Type of accepted name
Glenhaughton Stn, c. 55 km NW of Taroom, Qld, 19 Oct. 1974, R.C.Clarkson & D.G.Crossman 70A ; holo: BRI; iso: K.
Synonymy
Racosperma holotrichum (Pedley) Pedley, Austrobaileya 2: 350 (1987). Type: as for accepted name.
Representative collections
Qld: Duaringa, F.C.Epps 137 (BRI); Parish of Eastbrook, Rockhampton District, 14 Nov. 1979, P.Pulsford (BRI).
(BRM)
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