Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 2: 442 (1822) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
Open, often straggly, glabrous shrub, usually 0.6–3 m high; branchlet apices ribbed, ribs normally yellow. Phyllodes subdistant, usually patent to inclined, sessile, quadrangular to flat, 1–4(–8) cm long, 1–3 mm wide, rather coarse, rigid, straight to shallowly curved, green, apex usually asymmetric, pungent, cusp slender; veins 4, prominently 1-veined per face when flat, occasionally imperfectly 2–3-veined; gland 2–4 mm above base; stipules c. 1 mm long, sometimes deciduous. Peduncles usually 2–4 per axil, 1–2(–3) cm long, rather slender, basal bract deciduous; heads globular, 12–25-flowered, cream to rich lemon yellow. Flowers 4-merous; sepals united. Pods linear, 4–11 cm long, 4–7 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, arcuate to almost straight, raised over seeds; seeds longitudinal, 3.5–5.5 mm long, aril terminal. Flowers Feb.–Oct.
CVU, DunT, EGL, EGU, GipP, Glep, Gold, GGr, HNF, HSF, MonT, MuM, NIS, OtP, OtR, Strz, VRiv, VVP, WaP, Wim. Also SA, NSW, ACT, Tas. (including Flinders and Bruny Islands). Common through much of Victoria, growing on a variety of soils in dry sclerophyll forest and woodland or heathland below 1000 m altitude.
Phyllodes are usually 1–4 cm long and rather widely spreading, but occasionally (especially coastal areas from Wilsons Promontory to the Victoria-New South Wales border) they may be ascending to erect and may reach 8 cm long.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Murray Mallee | present | native | |
Wimmera | present | native | |
Glenelg Plain | present | native | |
Victorian Volcanic Plain | present | native | |
Victorian Riverina | 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 | |
Northern Inland Slopes | present | native | |
East Gippsland Lowlands | present | native | |
East Gippsland Uplands | present | native | |
Highlands-Southern Fall | present | native | |
Highlands-Northern Fall | present | native | |
Otway Ranges | present | native | |
Strzelecki Ranges | present | native | |
Monaro Tablelands | present | native |
State |
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Western Australia |
South Australia |
New South Wales |
Australian Capital Territory |
Victoria |
Tasmania |