Acacia melvillei
Pedley YarranShrubs or trees, 2–15 m high; branchlets angular, glabrous. Phyllodes ascending, narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 5–10.5 cm long, 5–25 mm wide, straight to slightly curved, coriaceous, covered with minute hairs (some older leaves almost glabrous), acute, sometimes mucronate; veins numerous, closely parallel, obscure or 1–3 slightly raised. Racemes often 2 per axil, 1–5-headed, rachis 2–7 mm long, glabrous; peduncles 4–9 mm long, sparsely hairy or glabrous; heads globular, 4–5 mm diam., 25–50-flowered, golden; bracteoles spathulate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals half united. Pods oblong, to 9 cm long, 9–15 mm wide, flat, slightly raised over and irregularly constricted between seeds, thin-chartaceous, straight, coarsely reticulate, glabrous; seeds transverse, broadly elliptic, 3.5–5.5 mm long, glossy brown-black, aril small, apical. Flowers Sep.–Oct.
MuM, Wim, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF. Also Qld, NSW. Scattered through north-western Victoria, mostly along Murray River and its flood-plain, often in woodland. The occurrence of the species at Woorak in the Wimmera is apparently established from old roadside plantings.
Reputedly hybridizes with A. loderi. See also notes under A. homalophylla.
Entwisle, T.J.; Maslin, B.R.; Cowan, R.S.; Court, A.B. (1996). Mimosaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 585–658. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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