Acacia spirorbis subsp. solandri
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Description
Shrub or tree, 12 m high.
Branchlets angular, glabrous.
Flowers golden yellow, pentamerous.
Stamens 2.5-3.5 mm.
Ovary densely pubescent, sessile.
Seeds longitudinal or slightly oblique when pod is broad, possibly broadly elliptic, 3.5-5 by 2-3.4 mm, areole large and open;
Distribution
Aneytum I present, Aroa R present, Asia-Tropical, Australasia, New Hebrides present, Papua New Guinea present, coast Central Queensland present
Australia (coast Central Queensland), Aneytum I. (New Hebrides); in Malesia: Papua New Guinea, only once collected (Aroa R.).
Notes
The New Guinea collection belongs to subsp. solandri. It merges gradually into subsp. spirorbis, which occurs in Melanesia (New Hebrides, New Caledonia). Subsp. spirorbis has phyllodes ± straight, 6-11 cm, 7-12 times as long as broad; subsp. solandri has phyllodes ± curved, 10-17 cm, 9- 24 times as long as broad.