Sp. Pl., edn 4, 4: 1049 (1806) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
Spreading shrub or erect tree, to 10 m high. Phyllodes sessile, acicular-quadrangular, linear or lanceolate, 0.5–2.5 cm long, 0.2–5 mm wide, pungent, mostly glabrous, alternate, fascicled or whorled, rigid, readily disarticulating; vein 1, rarely more; gland small. Inflorescence a spike or ovoid to spherical head, 1–3 per axil, to 2 cm long, cream to yellow; rachis glabrous to woolly; peduncles 2–15 mm long. Flowers 4-merous, usually densely packed; sepals united, pubescent. Pods linear, 2–8 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, compressed, hardly constricted between seeds, valves thin; seeds elliptic, c. 3–4 mm long, funicle filamentous for c. 2 mm and then folded and thickened into an oblique, turbinate aril.
CVU, DunT, EGL, EGU, GipP, Glep, Gold, GGr, HNF, HSF, OtP, OtR, SnM, Strz, VAlp, VVP, WaP, WPro, Wim.
A highly variable species with 4 subspecies, all occur in Victoria. Several of the subspecies have distinct populations within them. Intermediate forms may also be encountered where subspecies are sympatric.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Wimmera | present | native | |
Glenelg Plain | present | native | |
Victorian Volcanic Plain | present | native | |
Gippsland Plain | present | native | |
Otway Plain | present | native | |
Warrnambool Plain | present | native | |
Goldfields | present | native | |
Central Victorian Uplands | present | native | |
Greater Grampians | present | native | |
Dundas Tablelands | present | native | |
East Gippsland Lowlands | present | native | |
East Gippsland Uplands | present | native | |
Wilsons Promontory | present | native | |
Highlands-Southern Fall | present | native | |
Highlands-Northern Fall | present | native | |
Otway Ranges | present | native | |
Strzelecki Ranges | present | native | |
Victorian Alps | present | native | |
Snowy Mountains | present | native |
State |
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Western Australia |
South Australia |
New South Wales |
Australian Capital Territory |
Victoria |
Tasmania |