Collections made by Petra Ballings

Standing upright

Fruit with more than 23 very long-awned carpels

Extensive colony present

This species in not listed for Nyika in Burrows & Willis (2005).

iNaturalist record

Leaves long petiolate, rhombic-ovate, capitula small; achenes tuberculate

BR specimen

Fronds pilose

iNaturalist record

Young plants; not pilose, not winged, margin not serrate

Flowers tiny white, Leaves with very short white hairs.

Virgate shrub up to 1 m tall, growing in shallow water.

With inflorescences in bud

In flower

iNaturalist record

Fruit as long or longer than perianth segments

Fruit dark, as long or longer than tepals

Calyx lobes clearly overlapping, with rufus ciliate hairs; fruit clearly ridged not much exserting the calyx; plant decumbent.

Proliferous

Small flowers with extremely long style iNaturalist record

Bright yellow form

Climbing into Acacia nigrescens

Creeping rhizome, no gemma, about 30 cm, stipe articulated in lower half

Old leaves only, dying back in winter.

In fruit

"plumosus" form

In fruit

Looks like a cross between A. sandersonii and A. dregeanum

Meise Specimen (BR)

Meise specimen (BR) Looks like a cross between A. sandersonii and A. dregeanum