Acacia mitchellii

Shrub, erect to spreading, to 2 m high; bark smooth; branchlets more or less terete, with short, white hairs. Leaves bipinnate, dull green; rachis to 0.5 cm long, without glands, pubescent; pinnae in 1–3 pairs; pinnules in 2–6 pairs, crowded, elliptic to obovate, 2–4 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, within a single pinna more or less equal in length, thick, glabrous or rarely with a few scattered hairs, apex obtuse. Flower heads solitary (or rarely paired) in leaf axil, globular, 30–45-flowered, pale yellow; peduncles 10–25 mm long. Pod straight or curved, flattish, 2–6 cm long, 4–7 mm wide, sometimes regularly or irregularly constricted between seeds, brown to blackish, margins thickened. Flowers Aug.–Feb.