Acacia resinistipulea W.Fitzg. (as ‘resinostipulea’), J. Western Australia Nat. Hist. Soc. 1: 12 (1904)
Shrub or tree 1.5–3 m tall. Branchlets appressed-puberulous, glabrescent, resinous. Phyllodes patent to ascending, asymetrically narrowly elliptic, straight or slightly recurved, 18–25 mm long, 3–6 mm wide, the upper margin curved with a slight gland angle 1/3–3/4 from base, with acute, pungent apex, rigid, glaucous aging green, glabrous except often tomentulose basally, with numerous, closely parallel, fine nerves; pulvinus to 0.5 mm long and encased in an often dark-coloured resin-mass. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 3–4 mm long, appressed-puberulous; heads globular, 4–5 mm diam., 23–25-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, linear to spathulate-linear. Pods and seeds not seen.
Occurs sporadically from Yellowdine and Coolgardie SE to Boingaring Rocks in southern W.A. Grows mainly on loam in eucalypt woodland and Melaleuca uncinata open scrub.
Superficially similar to A. formidabilis .
Type of accepted name
9 miles [14.5 km] N of Bullabulling, W.A., Nov. 1903, W.V.Fitzgerald s.n. ; lecto: NSW, fide B.R.Maslin & R.S.Cowan, Nuytsia 9: 392 (1994); isolecto: NSW, PERTH00770051 & 00770078.
Representative collections
W.A.: c. 17 km S. of Norseman, R.J.Chinnock 3019 (PERTH); 0.8 km N of Yellowdine, R.Cumming 2473 (MEL, PERTH); 0.6 km E of Boingaring Rocks, K.Newbey 7428 (PERTH); Coolgardie, 11 Aug. 1901, L.C.Webster (PERTH).
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