Acacia randelliana W. V. Fitzg. was described by Fitzgerald from material gathered at Kanowna and Mt Malcolm in Western Australia. This species was included by J. M. Black in Fl.S.Aust. 2:289 (1924) where it was distinguished from A. burkittii by minor legume and seed characters. However, from the material I have examined I am unable to distinguish between these two species and have therefore treated them as conspecific. B. R. Maslin, in a personal communication, considers A. randelliana to be conspecific with the 'narrow phyllode forms' of A. acuminata Benth. i.e. A, burkittii. Maslin considers there to be clinal variation from the relatively broad phylloded A. acuminata (endemic to W.Aust.) to the narrow, subterete A. burkittii (W.Aust., S.Aust.). Certainly further work is needed to clarify this situation.