The species, previously compounded with <I>A. microcarpa</I>, occurs in S.A., N.S.W. and Vic. In South Australia it occurs on Eyre Peninsula from near Pt Lincoln to Kimba, rarely in the Gawler Ranges, in northern Yorke Peninsula through the northern Lofty region and eastwards to Waikerie and Gluepot Station, thence Lameroo-Pinnaroo to the Victorian Border. It favours flat or undulating topography of red-brown sands and light calcareous soils with mallee eucalypts. Recently collected on Kangaroo Island.