Acacia multistipulosa Tindale & Bedward, in M.D.Tindale et al ., Austral. Syst. Bot . 9: 859; 862, fig. 1 & 863, fig. 2 (1996)
Often spindly shrub or tree to 10 m high. Bark smooth, fissured in older trees, grey to brown or black. Branchlets terete, densely villous. Stipules very conspicuous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate, subfalcate, 3–10.5 cm long, 4–8 mm wide, coriaceous, pubescent, appressed-hairy becoming glabrescent, with prominent midvein, the minor veins 8–13 per mm, crowded; gland 1, basal, 5–10 mm above pulvinus. Spikes 2.4–9 cm long, bright yellow, the young spikes densely villous. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.5–0.9 mm long, dissected to 2/3–3/4, villous; corolla 0.9–1.1 mm long, dissected to c. 1/2, villous; ovary usually glabrous or with apical hairs. Pods linear, flat, sometimes slightly twisted, 3.5–8 cm long, 5–7 mm wide, puberulous-scurfy. Seeds oblique, elliptic, 3.6–4 mm long, dark brownish black; areole open, pale.
Restricted to Kakadu Natl Park, N.T., between 1232’S and 1259’S. Grows in sandy soils on sandstone outliers, often on rocky ledges, usually amongst boulders in low open Eucalyptus - Triodia woodland. Flowers Mar.–June.
Closely allied to A. conspersa from which it differs by its longer stipules 3–7 mm long which are clothed with hairs 0.3–0.7 mm long, by the bracteoles of the young spikes which are densely adorned with entangled or free hairs 0.3–0.7 mm long, and by the petals which are covered with hairs to 0.3 mm long on the outer surface. Also related to A. pubirhachis .
Type of accepted name
50 m E of Bowerbird Hut, near Jabiru, Kakadu Natl Park, N.T., 23 June 1984, W.Bishop 254 ; holo: NSW; iso: CANB, DNA, K, MEL.
Illustrations
M.D.Tindale et al., loc. cit .
Representative collections
N.T.: Kakadu Natl Park, 2.5 km NW of Koongarra Saddle, I.R.Telford 8117 & J.W.Wrigley (BRI, CANB, NSW) and I.R.Telford 8443 & J.W.Wrigley (CANB, NSW); Koongarra Saddle, M.D.Tindale 10037 & P.Munns (AD, B, CANB, DNA, MEL, MO, PERTH, US).
(NSW)
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