Acacia bivenosa Dc.

Shrub normally 1–3 m high, rarely prostrate, usually dense and glabrous. Bark smooth and light grey to medium grey. Branchlets often slightly pruinose. Phyllodes variable, usually narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic or obovate, usually 2–5 cm long and 6–25 mm wide with l: w ratio = 2–5, with incurved to straight mucro, thin to subfleshy, green or glaucous, usually 2‑veined per face; glands commonly 3, with lowermost prominent and 2–12 mm above pulvinus, and distal glands smaller with one commonly adjacent to mucro. Inflorescences 6-or 7-headed racemes, mostly growing out with subsequent inflorescences simple; raceme axes 2–4 cm long; peduncles (10–) 15–35 (–45) mm long; heads globular, subdense, normally 16–23-flowered, deep golden; buds bright green. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united into a ± truncate calyx. Pods ±erect and submoniliform (breaking readily at constrictions between seeds), to 8 cm long, 5–8 (–10) mm wide, firmly crustaceous to subwoody, light brown. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, 4–6 mm long, glossy, dark brown; aril red or orange.

Grows in a variety of soils, including coastal sand, and on rocky hillsides and gullies, in shrubland, open shrubland and open woodland, often associated with spinifex.

The seeds have been eaten raw.

It can be grown from seed. The seed need to have the hard seed coat broken. Normally this is by putting the seeds in very hot water and letting the water cool down overnight then planting the seeds immediately.