Acacia ammophila Pedley

Tree to ± 6 m high. Bark furrowed, dark grey. Branchlets apically white appressed-puberulous. Phyllodes linear, 10–20 cm long, 2.5–6 mm wide, acute to uncinate-acute, densely silvery appressed-puberulous (indumentum sparse on older phyllodes), with numerous closely parallel obscure veins. Inflorescences 2–4-headed racemes; raceme axes 1–4 mm long, densely appressed-puberulous; peduncles 7–12 mm long, appressed-puberulous; heads globular, 5 mm diam., 25–40-flowered, golden; bracteoles spathulate, acute. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ±free. Pods submoniliform, straight, to 20 cm long, 4–8 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to ± cartilaginous, longitudinally reticulate, minutely appressed-puberulous, glabrescent. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, ± 10 mm long, dull, dark brown; funicle gradually expanded to minute aril.

Grows on lower slopes of red sand dunes and heavier alluvial soil, in tall open shrubland with Acacia calcicola or members of the ‘A. aneura group’.