Acacia lanigera

Rigid shrub, 1–2 m high; branchlets angular apically, with minute, curled hairs, infrequently with subappressed, minute hairs. Phyllodes elliptic, linear-elliptic or linear-oblanceolate, (2–) 3–6.5 cm long, 4–10 mm wide, rigid, straight to slightly curved, acute or obtuse, sharply or coarsely pungent or sometimes innocuous; veins villose, becoming glabrous, with 3 or 4, distant, main veins and several, raised, occasionally to frequently anastamosing, secondary veins; gland basal to 13 mm above pulvinus. Peduncles 1–4 per axil (commonly paired), 2–9 mm long, with minute hairs or glabrous; heads subglobular, 4.5–6.5 mm diam, 5–7 mm long, 20–30-flowered, golden; bracteoles obovate, lanceolate or elliptic, subsessile, acute to acuminate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals two-thirds to three-quarters united. Pods linear, to 10 cm long, 4–6 mm wide, coriaceous, strongly curved to openly once-coiled, villous-tomentose; seeds longitudinal, oblong to broadly elliptic, 4.5–5 mm long, dull dark brown, minutely verrucose, aril apical. Woolly Wattle (Hairy Wattle).