Acacia pubifolia

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 8 m 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, 2-10 cm long, 8-30 mm 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, flower heads cylindrical, 2-5 cm long, golden yellow, peduncle 0-2 mm long, white and thickly hairy. The calyx is 0.5-0.9 mm long, squared or deeply divided part of the length, white, softly hairy, corolla 1.6-1.8 mm long and smooth. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is a linear pod, more or less flattened and straight, 3-8 cm long, 3-4 cm wide, papery, greyish and covered in soft, short hairs.

Taxonomy and Naming
Acacia pubifolia was first formally described in 1964 by Leslie Pedley 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 district from Glen Aplin to Wallangarra.