15S Wm.UA, flora of Victoria untf South Auxtratic [ V yal. T?^ 



ACACIA DECORA Kcichb,, 71827 



Thoc.ua (Herb, \TFX- R, A. BM. 10 Jan. I<«38l: Sugar teat' Peak, 

 Vvarbv Ranges near Thnnna fMKl.— /•'. Motky, 20 Sept, & 18 Nnv 

 1945). 



The first records for Victoria or a uce that is not uncommon, in Wagga 

 Wagga Oniric, t, KS.W, Affinities arc with A. O^.nfof.tn A, Qmn, (also 

 occurring in the Warty Range*), but the inflorescences <it* A, rtYcn/n arc 

 <jutl£ terminal, far exceeioug the pity Modes, and ibe stouter peduncles (lorry 

 [c/. always tflHDi'Oili m .3. bt\sxfcik\\. 



ACACIA KYBKANENSlb /. H. M<tuk>n 6- (i*. F. Bhkch in J. toy. Soc, 

 N.S.W-.aO: 1A8 (1927) 



#i vnuiAx 1. a AAhltin & W. F BUWety Uv "X67 (192?> 



^Ganu cptapftninft and ••!. encodes, with descriptions on adjoining pages ni 

 the. same journal. were based upon types from "head of Tuross Rivet, 

 Kybean" (N.SAV.) and "Clarence to Wolgait" in the Blue Mountain? 

 (N.3.W.) respectively Pods of the former sfriH&s were not *ce»», bur (he 



authors claim this to be "readily distinguished*' from A, arcades in its thin, 

 lanceolate. almost acuminate phyllodes, smalt hairy stipules, smaller thicker 

 calyx and much larger si/e (o-8 i\,, against 18-24"' n\ A, or*od-ts). These 

 differences may hold for individual plants, in idolater? pouulaitony., but puns 

 found to be trifling *nd inapplicable when a rang:* of material is studied from 

 Various localities, Iri Octohtir 1$48. I w3'« able to visit the very type locality 

 (Tuross River head, at Kydra Peak. K/bean) m .•{. byocanctuts. Specimens 

 from slender shrubs about 6 ft. hi«h were collected; later they evoked the 

 following comment from >1r. R H Anderson, Chief Botanist »nd Curator at 

 Sydney Botanic Gardens (B/7/N5J) — "a very Rood match for the type of 

 A. arcades Maid. & Blakely, with the .tniatl thick phytlodet*.'" So it seems that 

 quite typical /-J, QVfttfof (as to phyllodes) can occur almost at the spot whence 

 tyi>e. A. hybcanensis came! It is clear thai pwc species- only is> involved, and 

 the original diagnosis of 'f. oreorf#x probahjy tweet, \r> unusually small plant*, 

 dwarfed by environment. Since the circumscription o£ A. hyhcauensis better 

 fits the more usual appearance of ibe JiKrei-cs, tins name is now chosen for 

 retention and the other relegated to synonymy. 



Ill addition to the above highland localities in New Sotuh Wale*. A. 

 ?;ybea\u-nsn is hef-c rtcofdcil for the first time as Victorian. ft.s. . on the 

 mounrom road henveen Wulgulmerang and McKillop** Bridge [Snowy River], 

 about 3 miles, iielow Little River tally (J, H. vfattit'fk A*. A. Wakefield. 

 17 Jan. 104A — exc-jrtlent fruiting *pe<imciw ) ; on mountain slopes at Freestone 

 Creek, north of Briagolong, (F. Mueller, Feb. 1854). Both collection* arc in 

 Melbourne Herbarium, and the tatter very old one bad been filed under 

 Mueller';, ms label 'Acacia btt-rifolia var. x'cintinu"_ These Victorian repre- 

 sentatives exhibit larger yhytjodes (to 2" long) than m either of the New 

 South Wales type*; but the hoary pubescence on btanchleis. mttore-Kcoces 

 and yuuiUjj foliage is exactly the same. In view of the recent collection of pods 

 (on the example Irom tiear I. title Rivef Palls, V*ic-) ( Matden and HlaVely's 

 description given for the fruit of A. oreades — they had not seen pods of their 

 A. k.\>t*ctui>ct'St3 — ma> he ■.upptementcd as follows : to 5 cm. long x 2 cm. wide, 

 very flat, glaucous, hearing up to 7 oblique fcu transverse (not hmijiiudinal) 

 r-eeds 



ACACIA 1-RK.ESLENa /. //. tYWi*; 



species nova ^*; nftinhatr. //. fRfIati(UB$fak R,Kr. Jt» Ait> sed ditfefl sic 

 «tatura nuiioie, cortice heviore. phyllt;dns suhcinereis quae 3-4 neryxis 

 coiispicuos parailclos esnihet. iteduncutis mam'fesle hhsutis. Ilonbtti. 



