Acacia flavipila is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to an area of south western Australia.
Description
The spreading shrub typically grows to a height of and has branchlets that are densely covered in golden coloured hairs that are more white on young shoots. The branchlets also have persistent stipules that are about in length. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen phyllodes have an elliptic to oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate shape and are usually inequilateral with a length of and a width of and two or three main nerves. It blooms from May to September and produces yellow flowers.
Taxonomy
There are two recognised varieties of the species: Acacia flavipila var. flavipila Acacia flavipila var. ovalis
Distribution
It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated on undulating plains growing sandy or clay-loam soils. It has a scattered distribution from around Cadoux in the north west down to around Dunn Swamp about north of Raventhorpe in the south east.