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Acacia latisepala Pedley
Family Fabaceae
Subfamily Mimosoideae
Acacia latisepala Pedley APNI*

Synonyms: Racosperma latisepalum (Pedley) Pedley APNI*

Description: Spreading shrub usually 1–3 m high; bark smooth, grey; branchlets ± terete, glabrous to sparsely hairy.

Leaves usually bipinnate but sometimes a few phyllodes present; petiole 1–4.5 cm long, with 1 prominent gland near the middle; rachis 1–3 cm long, glabrous, glands absent or sometimes with a small jugary gland at apex; pinnae 1–3 pairs, 1.5–4.5 cm long; pinnules 4–7 pairs, ± oblong, usually 10–20 mm long and 4–8 mm wide, glabrous. Phyllodes ± oblanceolate, ± straight or subfalcate, 6–10 cm long, 4–7 mm wide, midvein prominent and towards upper margin, apex ± acute with a mucro, glabrous, reddish; 1 gland 8–25 mm above pulvinus; pulvinus 1–5 mm long.

Inflorescences 2–10 in an axillary raceme with axis 0.6–5 cm long, sometimes in panicles; peduncles 3–6 mm long, with minute appressed hairs; heads globose, 12–20-flowered, 7–10 mm diam., bright yellow.

Pods straight to curved, ± flat, mostly ± straight-sided, 4–8 cm long, 6–10.5 mm wide, leathery, glabrous; seeds longitudinal; funicle expanded towards seed.


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Photo T.M. Tame

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Flowering: July–September.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in heath and dry sclerophyll forest amongst granite outcrops in the Torrington district and north from Bald Rock National Park; rare.
NSW subdivisions: NT
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

The name refers to the wide lobes of the sepals. Similar to Acacia debilis and A. pruinosa both of which have a greater number of smaller pinnules.

Text by P.G. Kodela
Taxon concept: P.G. Kodela & G.J. Harden, Flora of NSW Vol. 2 (2002)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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