Botanical art
Prior names
Racosperma aneurum var. microcarpum
Acacia aneura var. microcarpa
Acacia aneura, partly
Common names
Narrow-leaf Mulga
Etymology
Acacia from the Greek 'akakia' and derived from 'ake' or 'akis 'meaning a sharp point or thorn and 'akazo' meaning to sharpen. Dioscorides, the Greek physician and botanist used the word in the 1st century AD for the Egyptian thorn tree, Acacia Arabica. Incurvaneura from the Latin 'incurvus' meaning incurved, alluding to the shallow incurved phyllodes of this species and 'aneura' from the Greek 'a' meaning not or without and 'neuron' meaning a nerve, referring to the obscure veins on the phyllodes. Formally Acacia aneura var. macrocarpa.
Distribution and status
Find in the north western part of South Australia, growing on plains and in gently undulating country on red-brown sandy loam. Also found in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
Herbarium regions: North Western, Lake Eyre
AVH map: SA distribution map (external link)