Acacia hypermeces A.S.George, J. Roy. Soc. Western Australia 82: 100 (1999)
Prostrate shrub to c. 1 m diam., the stems, phyllodes and corolla apex openly hispid. Stipules spreading, subulate, c. 1 mm long. Phyllodes 9–12 per whorl, spreading to ascending, flattened, commonly 8–15 mm long, with straight or slightly curved mucro 0.2–0.3 mm long, with 1 adaxial and 2 abaxial grooves. Peduncles 10–26 mm long, hispid. Heads commonly 16–21-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.8 mm long, glabrous, the lobes very short, rounded-irregular, without midrib; corolla striate throughout, hispid at apex, otherwise glabrous. Pods stipitate, 3–4 cm long, glabrous; margins slightly thickened. Seeds to c. 6 per pod, longitudinal, 3–4 mm long; pleurogram closed.
Known only from the type and a nearby locality in the north-eastern Kimberley, W.A., growing in alluvial sand over sandstone rocks. Flowers June.
Related to A. repens with which it shares the prostrate habit but distinguished by the more extensive indumentum including that on the corolla apex, by the greater number of phyllodes per whorl, by the longer, less curved mucro, irregularly lobed calyx and the very long stipe of the pod. The date of collection of the type cited in the protologue is incorrect. Also related to A. mitodes .
Type of accepted name
Mouth of Berkeley R., W.A., 9 June 1992, K.F.Kenneally 11313 ; holo: PERTH; iso: CANB, K.
Representative collection
W.A.: mouth of Berkeley R., K.F.Kenneally 11313 (PERTH).
(ASG)
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