Acacia stenophylla

Rounded shrub to spreading tree, 4–20 m high; branches normally pendulous, branchlets glabrous to minutely sericeous, often pruinose, sometimes angular. Phyllodes strap-like, 15–40 cm long, 2–5(–10)mm wide, straight to weakly curved, thinly coriaceous, glabrous or appressed-puberulous, acute to acuminate, apex often strongly arcuate; veins numerous, closely parallel, narrower than intervein spaces. Racemes 3–5-headed, rachis 2–15 mm long, subglabrous or with appressed minute hairs; peduncles 6–13 mm long; heads globular, 6–9 mm diam., 25–40-flowered, creamy-white to pale yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals three-quarters united. Pod moniliform, to 26 cm long, 8–12 mm wide, woody-coriaceous, smooth, glabrous except micro-puberulous between seeds; seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 7–9 mm long, dark brown, without aril, funicle enlarged, folded at seed apex and white. Eumong (Koorie name, ?central Australia). Flowering time irregular, mainly autumn.