Acacia simmonsiana

Bushy, spreading shrub to 2 m high; branchlets angled or flattened apically, glabrous. Phyllodes oblanceolate, sometimes narrowly elliptic, mostly 1.5–5 cm long, 2–9 mm wide, slightly curved, sometimes straight, glabrous, obliquely apiculate-mucronate, sometimes pungent; 1-veined; stipules 2–4(–5) mm long, persistent; gland mostly 5–16 mm above pulvinus. Peduncles (2–)4–10 mm long, commonly 2 per node or sometimes on rachis to 1 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, c. 4 mm diam. and (16–)24–36-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods terete, not or hardly constricted, strongly curved, to 7 cm long, 2.5–4 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly crustaceous, black; seeds longitudinal, 3–4 mm long; aril terminal, conical and creamy white. Flowers Sep.–Oct.