Acacia ×grayana

Dense shrub or tree, 2–3 m high; branchlets glabrous except sometimes at often angled extremities where appressed-hairy; new shoots glabrous to densely covered in appressed, white or pale golden hairs. Phyllodes narrowly oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic to more or less linear, 2.5–5.5 cm long, 2–4.5 mm wide, glabrous, normally uncinate; midrib moderately prominent, pinnate veins obscure; stipules deciduous. Raceme with rachis usually 1–5 mm long and 2–3-headed, subglabrous to moderately antrorsely pubescent with white or pale golden hairs; peduncles 4–12 mm long, indumentum as on rachis; heads globular, 20–35-flowered, bright golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united or free. Pods submoniliform, to c. 7 cm long, c. 6 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; seeds longitudinal, elliptic, c. 6 mm long, black, funicle folded on one side of the seed. Flowers Aug.–Oct.