Acacia deanei

Shrub or small tree, to c. 7 m tall; bark smooth, grey-brown; branchlets angular or flattened, glabrous or with appressed hairs; new growth yellow. Leaves bipinnate, dull green; rachis 1–4 cm long, with short, appressed hairs, glands at the junction of each pinna pair and sometimes 1 or more between successive pairs; pinnae in 2–8 pairs, with gland at base; pinnules in 10–30 pairs, crowded to well-spaced, linear to oblong, 3.5–10 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, within a single pinna more or less equal in length, hairy or glabrous, apex mostly obtuse to truncate. Inflorescence a raceme or panicle; heads globular, 15–30-flowered, pale yellow, peduncles c. 5 mm long, hairy. Pod more or less straight, flattish, 6–13 cm long, 6–9 mm wide, usually constricted between seeds, dark brown to blackish, hairy at least when young.