Acacia floydii
Acacia floydii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales, Australia. It is a slender shrub or tree with glabrous, dark coloured branchlets, narrowly linear phyllodes, spherical heads of pale yellow, cream-coloured to more or less white flowers and leathery dark brown to blackish pods.
Description
Acacia floydii is an erect, slender, spreading shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of but can reach up to. Its branchlets are dark coloured, flat or triangular in cross section and glabrous. The phyllodes are narrowly linear long, wide and glabrous with a single vein and a gland above the base of the phyllode.The flowers are borne in eight to eleven spherical heads in racemes long on peduncles long. Each head has eight to twelve loosley arranged pale yellow, cream-coloured to more or less white flowers. The pods are narrowly oblong, leathery to thinly leathery, up to long, wide, glabrous and dark brown to blackish. The seeds are oblong, about long and slightly shiny blackish with a club-shaped aril.
Taxonomy
Acacia floydii was first formally described in 1980 in the journal Telopea |Telopea from specimens collected from Tenterfield on the Timbarra Road in 1955. The specific epithet honours Alexander Floyd who drew the author's attention to this species and arranged for the collection of material.
Distribution and habitat
This species of wattle is restricted to the escarpment range east of Tenterfield where it grows in moist sand on granite or near creeks in eucalypt forest.