Acacia aphylla Maslin

Divaricately branched shrub to 2.3 m high. Branchlets rigid, terete, very obscurely ribbed, smooth, glaucous, pruinose, glabrous, coarsely pungent. Phyllodes absent. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 7–10 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 20–30-flowered, bright light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ± free. Pods linear, 3–9 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, coriaceous, faintly pruinose, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 4–4.5 mm long, subshiny, black, arillate.

Confined to granite outcrops on hillsides, in open eucalypt woodland; sometimes growing from crevices within the granite.