Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrub or tree 2.5–7 (–10 m) high, often multi–stemmed with bushy crowns.

Stems: Branchlets obscurely ribbed or ribless, ribs not resinous or with a normally thin layer of translucent resin, new shoots resinous, with a dense layer of dark-colored glandular hairlets.

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Leaves: Leaves simple, modified into phyllodes. Alternate. Phyllodes narrowly linear to linear-elliptic, mostly shallowly incurved, not rigid, flat, 4–12 (–18) cm long, (1–) 1.5–3 (–4) mm wide. Blades glabrous or obscurely appressed-hairy between veins, normally grey-green to subglaucous and often with a silvery sheen. Longitudinal veins numerous and very fine, margins not resinous; gland 0–1(–3) mm above pulvinus.

Flowers: Inflorescences mostly simple; peduncles 4–10 (–15) mm long, sparsely to ± densely sericeous with commonly some red-brown glandular hairlets; spikes (10–) 15–30 (–40) mm long. Flowers 5-merous. Calyx of 5 sepals; Sepals free, ½–¾ length of petals, normally linear-spathulate. Corolla of 5 petals.

Fruit: Pods mostly straight-edged; flat; (1–) 1.5–4 cm long; (6–) 7–15 mm wide including the wing 0.4–1 (–2) mm wide; chartaceous to firmly chartaceous; normally brown to grey-brown; glabrous or sparsely appressed puberulous; obscurely reticulate; margins winged or rarely bevel-edged; often shiny-resinous. Seeds transverse to oblique; 3.5–5 mm long; 2.5–3 (–3.5) mm wide; elliptic to oblong or ovate; aril small; whitish or cream.

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