Citation: Gand., Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 59:706 (1912).

Synonymy: A. ovina sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 398 (1948), partly.

Common name: None

Description:
Stems usually 20-50 cm high, lacking stolons; leaves narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, with usually more than 4 pairs of leaflets, usually 8-15 cm long (including the petiole) glabrous or sparsely appressed-pilose above, densely and evenly appressed-pilose below.

Flowers in interrupted spikes; sepals 5, 1.5-2.5 mm long; stamens dark-purple.

Fruit ovoid, glabrous or pubescent; spines all more or less equal, slender, glabrous, usually 30-40, usually 1-2 mm long, barbed at the tip.

Published illustration: J. Black (1948) Fl. S. Aust. 398, partly.

Distribution:    Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.; and probably through introduction W.Aust. Inter dist: Probably through introduction in New Zealand. Conservation status: native 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

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