Acacia howittii

Graceful shrub or tree, 3–9 m high; branchlets slender, pendulous, ribs pubescent, in between more or less glabrous and slightly resinous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, usually 1.5–2.5 cm long, 4–8 mm wide, thin, dark green, glabrous except margins and sometimes main veins which may have appressed, minute hairs, resinous-punctate, often viscid especially when young, acute to acuminate; main veins 2–4, distant, with few, longitudinally anastomosing lateral veins. Peduncles 1 or 2 per axil, 3–10 mm long, minutely pubescent, basal bract persistent; heads globular, c. 3 mm diam., 12–20-flowered, pale lemon-yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods narrowly oblong to linear, to 6 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, brown, glabrous except margins hairy; seeds longitudinal, oblong, 3.5–4 mm long, somewhat shiny, dark brown, aril terminal. Flowers mostly Oct.