''Acacia pubifolia '' commonly known as velvet wattle, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern New South Wales. It is an upright or spreading tree with bright yellow flowers.

Description

''Acacia pubifolia'' is a single-stemmed shrub or tree to high with dark, rough bark. The branches are brown or orange to brown, occasionally slightly covered with a powdery, waxy coating and softly hairy. The phyllodes are elliptic or narrowly egg-shaped, straight, long, wide, velvety hairy, aging to soft, erect hairs, and prominent veins from tip to base. One or two flowers are borne in phyllode axils, more or less

sessile Sessility, or sessile, may refer to: * Sessility (motility), organisms which are not able to move about * Sessility (botany), flowers or leaves that grow directly from the stem or peduncle of a plant * Sessility (medicine), tumors and polyps that ...

, flower heads cylindrical, long, golden yellow, peduncle long, white and thickly hairy. The calyx is long, squared or deeply divided part of the length, white, softly hairy, corolla long and smooth. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is a linear pod, more or less flattened and straight, long, wide, papery, greyish and covered in soft, short hairs.

Taxonomy and Naming

''Acacia pubifolia'' was first formally described in 1964 by

Leslie Pedley Leslie Pedley (19 May 1930 – 27 November 2018)IPNILeslie Pedley/ref> was an Australian botanist who specialised in the genus ''Acacia''. He is notable for bringing into use the generic name ''Racosperma'', creating a split in the genus, which r ...

and the description was published in '' Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland''.The specific epithet (''pubifolia'') means "softly, hairy leaved".

Distribution and Habitat

''Acacia pubifolia'' grows on rocky granite hillsides and in loam soil in dry sclerophyll forest near Emmaville and Torrington, New South Wales. In Queensland it grows in the

Darling Downs The Darling Downs is a farming region on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland, Australia. The Downs are to the west of South East Queensland and are one of the major regions of Queensland. The name was general ...

district from Glen Aplin to

Wallangarra Wallangarra is a rural town and locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia on the border with New South Wales. In the , the locality of Wallangarra had a population of 468 people. It is the third-most southerly town in Queens ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15288468 pubifolia Flora of New South Wales