Acacia ulicifolia

Erect, often straggly shrub, mostly 1–2 m high; branchlets sparsely to moderately covered in minute hairs, at least at extremities. Phyllodes scattered, sometimes subverticillate, spreading, subsessile, linear-triangular, 5–15(–20)mm long, 0.5–1.5 mm wide, rigid, flat, ridges sometimes minutely papillose, rarely hairy, green, pungent; midrib prominent on each face; gland obscure, 0.5–3 mm above base; stipules persistent, frequently more than 1 mm long. Peduncles 1 per axil, 7–15 mm long, slender, 0.3–0.5 mm diam. when dry, usually glabrous, basal bracts 3, fused; heads globular, 20–35-flowered, creamy-yellow, bracteoles acuminate, not or scarcely exserted beyond buds. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free or united; petals 1-veined. Pods 2–6 cm long, 4–6 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, normally slightly constricted between seeds, glabrous or subglabrous, dark brown to black; seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 3.5–5 mm long, normally mottled, without aril, funicle filiform. Flowers Apr.–Oct.