Acacia silvestris

Tree, to 30 m high; bark smooth or sometimes finely fissured, blotchy grey; branchlets terete or slightly ridged, densely covered in appressed, short, grey hairs; young growth light yellow. Leaves bipinnate, greyish to mid green; rachis 4–7 cm long, pubescent with short, silver to grey hairs, with a raised gland at the junction of each pinna pair and 1 or more between successive pairs; pinnae in 6–10 pairs; pinnules in 16–27 pairs, well-spaced, lanceolate, 5–8 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, within a single pinna more or less equal in length, apex acute (but the very tip bluntish). Inflorescence a raceme or panicle; heads globular, 20–30-flowered, bright yellow, peduncles c. 4 mm long. Pod more or less straight, flattish, 5–12 cm long, 6–10 mm wide, constricted between seeds, brownish to bluish-black, sometimes glaucous, with scattered, appressed hairs. Flowers Jul.–Sep.