Acacia exudans

Slightly aromatic, dense rounded shrub, 1–4 m high; branchlets not or only slightly flexuose, angled and often viscid with a thick band of dark resin between slighty raised yellow bands when young, but soon terete, glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly oblong-elliptic to narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, occasionally elliptic or lanceolate, (2.5–)3–6(–7) cm long, 5–20 mm wide, ± straight, scarcely resinous-punctate, glabrous, margins with appressed hairs when young; veins 2, lateral nerves few and obscure; gland 0–3(–4) mm above pulvinus. Peduncles 1–2(–3) per axil, 4–10 mm long, stout, densely tomentose, basal bract caducous or persistent; heads globose, 6–9 mm diam., 50–60-flowered, lemon yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods narrowly oblong, 2–7 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, glabrous; seeds longitudinal, obloid-orbicular, 3.8–4.3 mm long, shiny, dark brown or black, aril terminal. Flowers Sep.–Oct.