Acacia simulans Maslin, Nuytsia 2: 100; 97, fig. 1 (1976)
Barrens Kindred Wattle
Diffuse, open shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets grey, glabrous or sparsely appressed-puberulous. Stipules c. 1 mm long. Phyllodes verticillate with verticels 1–2.5 cm apart, 6–9 per whorl, patent to slightly reflexed, straight or shallowly recurved, tetragonous in section, sometimes trigonous, 8–12 (– 15) mm long, 1 mm wide, pungent with a slender cusp 1 mm long, rigid, glabrous, sometimes subglabrous, 4-nerved, sometimes imperfectly 3-nerved, deeply channelled between nerves when dry. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 2–5 (– 10) mm long, glabrous; heads globular to slightly obloid, 16–20-flowered, cream to pale yellow. Flowers 4-merous; sepals 2/3–3/4-united. Pods moniliform, to 7 cm long, 4 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, dark brown, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, widely oblong-elliptic, c. 4 mm long, slightly shiny, dark brown; aril terminal, conical.
Restricted to Fitzgerald R. Natl Park, south-western W.A. Grows in sand in heath, scrub and shrubland dominated by Eucalyptus tetraptera .
Related to A. argutifolia . Superficially resembles A. cedroides which also has verticillate, pungent phyllodes and grows in the Fitzgerald R. Natl Park but has longer, inclined to ascending phyllodes, striate-ribbed branchlets, 5-merous flowers and coarsely striate pods.
Type of accepted name
c. 1.6 km due NW of Mt Bland, Fitzgerald R. Natl Park, W.A., 30 Aug. 1973, B.R.Maslin 3483 ; holo: PERTH; iso: BRI, CANB, K, MEL, NY, PERTH.
Illustration
B.R.Maslin, loc. cit .
Representative collection
W.A.: type locality, B.R.Maslin 3482 (B, BRI, K, L, MEL, NSW, PERTH, RSA).
(BRM)
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