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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Fabaceae
Acacia tenuior

Citation: J. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W. 53:186, t.10 (9-17) (1920)

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Presumably a shrub; branches terete, rather prominently veined, densely appressed-puberulous

Phyllodes filiform compressed-terete, to 14 cm long, about 1 mm thick, with about 8 prominent veins, sprinkled with short hairs; apex weak and attenuate.

Inflorescence: heads globular, 25-30-flowered on solitary or twin hairy peduncles, 10-15 mm long; sepals 5, linear-spathulate, pubescent; petals united in lower half; ovary pubescent.

Legume and seeds unknown.

Distribution:  No specimen is lodged in the State Herbarium. The type was collected by Dr. H. Basedow (Basedow 254) in 1903 in the Musgrave Ranges (North-Western region).

S.Aust.: NW.

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Related taxa: This species appears to have some affinity to A. rigens.

Author: Not yet available

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