Velvet wattle | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
Genus: | Acacia |
Species: | A. pubifolia |
Binomial name | |
Acacia pubifolia | |
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Occurrence data from AVH |
Acacia pubifolia commonly known as velvet wattle, [2] 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. [3]
Acacia pubifolia is a single-stemmed shrub or tree to 8 m (26 ft) 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 (0.79–3.94 in) long, 8–30 mm (0.31–1.18 in) 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 (0.79–1.97 in) long, golden yellow, peduncle 0–2 mm (0.000–0.079 in) long, white and thickly hairy. The calyx is 0.5–0.9 mm (0.020–0.035 in) long, squared or deeply divided part of the length, white, softly hairy, corolla 1.6–1.8 mm (0.063–0.071 in) 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 (1.2–3.1 in) long, 3–4 cm (1.2–1.6 in) wide, papery, greyish and covered in soft, short hairs. [2] [4]
Acacia pubifolia was first formally described in 1964 by Leslie Pedley and the description was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland . [5] The specific epithet (pubifolia) means "softly, hairy leaved". [6]
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. [2] [4] [7]
Acacia aneura, commonly known as mulga, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland Australia. It is a variable shrub or small tree with flat, narrowly linear to elliptic phyllodes, cylindrical spikes of bright yellow flowers and more or less flat and straight, leathery pods.
Acacia cultriformis, known as the knife-leaf wattle, dogtooth wattle, half-moon wattle or golden-glow wattle, is a perennial tree or shrub of the genus Acacia native to Australia. It is widely cultivated, and has been found to have naturalised in Asia, Africa, North America, New Zealand and South America. A. cultriformis grows to a height of about 4 m (13 ft) and has triangle-shaped phyllodes. The yellow flowers appear from August to November in its natural range. Its attractive foliage and bright flowers make it a popular garden plant.
Acacia acanthoclada, commonly known as harrow wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a low, highly branched, spreading and spiny shrub with wedge-shaped to triangular or egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, and spherical heads of up to 30 flowers, and linear, spirally-coiled pods.
Acacia alata, commonly known as winged wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a much-branched shrub, its phyllodes continuous with the branches and arranged on either side of them, flowers arranged in racemes of 2 spherical heads of white to golden-yellow flowers, and flat, curved, crusty pods 20–80 mm (0.79–3.15 in) long.
Acacia gunnii, commonly known as ploughshare wattle or dog's tooth wattle, is a woody shrub which is endemic to south-eastern Australia found in dry heaths and woodlands. It ranges from Queensland, then New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, South Australia, down to Tasmania. Acacia gunnii grows to up to 1 metre high and has prickly phyllodes which are 4 to 15 mm long. The cream to pale yellow globular flowerheads appear singly in the axils of the phyllodes in June to October, followed by curved or coiled seed pods which are 40 mm long and 4 to 5 mm wide. Acacia gunnii grows up to 1 meter tall and has prickly phyllodes which are 4 to 15mm in length with cream to pale-yellow globular flower heads appearing in phyllode axils in June through to October, followed by curved or coiled seed pods which are 40mm long and 4 to 5 mm wide. The species was first formally described by English botanist George Bentham in the London Journal of Botany in 1842. It occurs in South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, and Queensland.
Acacia lineataA.Cunn. ex G.Don, commonly known as streaked wattle or narrow lined-leaved wattle, occurs naturally inland eastern Australia. The genus Acacia is the largest genus of flowering plants in Australia, containing around 1000 species throughout a diverse range of environments from coast to desert.
Acacia subulata, commonly known as awl-leaf wattle, is a shrub endemic to New South Wales in Australia.
Acacia adoxa, commonly known as the grey-whorled wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is a dense, low-lying shrub with linear, more or less cylindrical phyllodes in whorls of 6 to 10, heads of golden-yellow flowers, and flat, sticky pods.
Acacia argyraea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to tropical parts of northern Australia. It is a shrub or tree with smooth bark, narrowly elliptic to elliptic phyllodes, spikes of pale yellow flowers in axils, and linear to lance-shaped pods up to 85 cm (33 in) long.
Acacia anasilla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with whorls of 15 to 20 straight phyllodes and spherical heads of 40 to 50 flowers, and pods 20–30 mm (0.79–1.18 in) long.
Acacia amblygona, commonly known as fan wattle or fan leaf wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to continental Australia. It is a sprawling, sometimes prostrate shrub with sharply-pointed, lance-shaped, tapering phyllodes, golden-yellow flowers arranged in a spherical head of 10 to 18 in the axils of phyllodes, and curved, coiled or twisted pods up to 70 mm (2.8 in) long.
Acacia anserina, also known as hairy sandstone wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a small area in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is an erect, openly-branched shrub with its branchlets densely covered with soft hairs, widely elliptic to widely egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, spherical heads of 17 to 25 light golden flowers, and narrowly oblong pods up to 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) wide.
Acacia assimilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, spreading, rounded shrub or tree with thread-like, glabrous, green phyllodes, spherical to elliptic or oblong heads of golden or lemon-yellow flowers, and linear pods up to 85 mm (3.3 in) long.
Acacia mollifolia, commonly known as the hairy silver wattle, velvet acacia and hoary silver wattle is a species of Acacia native to eastern Australia.
Acacia arafurica is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the far north of the Northern Territory. It is a shrub or tree obliquely egg-shaped to diamond-shaped phyllodes, flowers arranged in spikes of golden yellow flowers, and papery, linear pods up to 105 mm (4.1 in) long.
Acacia arbiana, commonly known as Tony's wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of central-eastern Queensland. It is a spreading shrub with crowded, linear phyllodes, and single heads of golden yellow flowers, and linear, papery pods up to 450 mm (18 in) long.
Acacia aprepta, commonly known as Miles mulga, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Queensland. It is a spreading tree with furrowed bark, linear flat or slightly curved phyllodes, up to 3 spikes of yellow flowers, and linear, papery pods up to about 60 mm (2.4 in) long.
Acacia ammophila is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to southern inland Queensland. It has linear phyllodes, flowers arranged in racemes or 2 to 4 spherical heads of 25 to 40 golden yellow flowers, and a pod up to 200 mm (7.9 in) long.
Acacia mariae, commonly known as golden-top wattle or crowned wattle, is a species of wattle native to central New South Wales.
Acacia argyrotricha, commonly known as Bracker wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub with hairy branchlets, linear, flattened phyllodes, deep yellow flowers arranged in head of 30 to 40, and linear pods up to 750 mm (30 in) long.