Acacia ureniae
N.G.Walsh Cobungra WattleErect shrub or small tree, to ca. 5 m high; lower bark with lenticels arranged in discontinuous narrow horizontal ridges. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, 5.5–9.5 cm long, 7–16 mm wide, apex obtuse, dark green; primary veins 3–7, secondary veins somewhat obscure, reticulate, forming alveolae about as long as they are wide; gland apparently absent. Spikes 1 or 2 per axil, sessile, 10–25 mm long, pale to lemon yellow; rachis sparsely and minutely hairy. Flowers 4-merous, crowded, usually obscuring the rachis; sepals united in basal half, fimbriate on margin. Pod cylindrical to submoniliform, not or hardly woody, slightly curved, c. 2–12 cm long, 3–4.5 mm wide; seeds elliptic, 4–5 mm long, dull, funicle usually closely folded 2 or 3 times, aril cupular. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
HNF, VAlp. Apparently endemic in the Cobungra–Mt Hotham area in catchments of the Cobungra and Dargo Rivers. Recorded from subalpine woodland and riparian scrubs.
Probably most closely related to A. dallachiana from which it differs primarily in the absence of a phyllode gland, smaller, straight rather than falcate phyllodes with the minor veinlets forming more or less isodiametrical areaoles (the areoles of A. dallachiana being distinctly longer than wide.
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