Acacia mollifolia Maiden & Blakely, J. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New South Wales 60: 192 (1927)
Pendulous shrub or tree 1.5–6 m high, with mallee habit. Bark smooth or fissured near base, grey, greyish black or brown. Branchlets with the surface and inconspicuous ridges densely silvery grey tomentose. Young foliage-tips silvery or silvery ferruginous, velvety. Leaves herbaceous to subcoriaceous, silvery grey; petiole above pulvinus mostly 0.2–0.7 cm long, terete, 1 gland at base of or near lowest pinnae; rachis 1–4.5 (–6.5) cm long, with a spherical, tomentose jugary gland at base of each pair of pinnae, interjugary glands absent; pinnae 4–10 pairs, 0.8–3.5 (–4) cm long; pinnules 7–27 pairs, linear to cultrate, 2.5–7.5 mm long, 0.5–0.8 mm wide, silvery, velvety, apex obtuse or acute with a terminal tuft of hairs. Inflorescences in axillary racemes or terminal false-panicles. Heads 20–42-flowered, golden yellow. Pods submoniliform, 3–12 cm long, 4–7 mm wide, coriaceous, tomentose with silvery grey or castaneous hairs to 1 mm long. 2 n = 26, B.G.Briggs, on C.K.Ingram s.n. (NSW64404).
Occurs in eastern N.S.W. on the Central Tablelands as far E as Rockley Mtn, near Bathurst, common on the Central Western Slopes from Peak Hill S to Boorowa and W to the Cocoparra Ra., South Western Plains. Grows on dry rocky ridges, on flat alluvial land, in Callitris - Eucalyptus open forest or woodland, mostly on sandstone. Flowers Mar.- May; fruits late Oct.- Dec.
Closely allied to A. fulva .
Type of accepted name
Hervey Ra., Peak Hill, N.S.W., Nov. 1905, J.L.Boorman ; holo: NSW.
Synonymy
Acacia mollifolia is based on the following. A. decurrens var. lanigera Maiden, Wattles & wattle-barks 3rd edn, 41 (1906). Type: as for accepted name.
Illustrations
J.H.Maiden, Forest Fl. New South Wales 3: pl. 88O- Q (1907), fig. R is A. fulva ; D.A.Morrison & S.J.Davies, in G.J.Harden (ed.), Fl. New South Wales 2: 391 (1991).
Representative collections
N.S.W.: Bindogandri Ck, 14 miles [22.5 km] by road E of Parkes, E.F.Constable 7288 (NSW); 7 km WNW of Baldry P.O., R.Coveny 12088 & P.Hind (CANB, MEL, MO, NSW, NY, PERTH); Hervey Ra., E of Trewilga, 27 Apr. 1964, C.K.Ingram s.n. (A, AD, BR, BRI, K, L, NSW, NY, PERTH, UC, US); Rockley Mtn, 12 miles [19.3 km] S of Bathurst, C.K.Ingram s.n. (NSW64578).
(MDT & PGK)
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