Acacia brumalis Maslin

Shrub or tree 2–3 m tall. Branchlets sometimes red, glabrous. Phyllodes patent to ascending, variable in shape and size, commonly oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, sometimes linear, straight to shallowly incurved, (3.5–) 5–9 (–11) cm long, (4–) 5–10 (–11) mm wide, narrowed at base, rather firm and coriaceous, glabrous, 1-nerved per face; lateral nerves obscure; glands not prominent, 1 or 2, with the lowermost usually 2–30 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes (0.3–) 0.6–2.5 (–4) cm long, appressed-puberulous with golden or white hairs, sometimes glabrous in fruit; peduncles (2–) 3–5 mm long, with indumentum as on raceme axes; heads globular to slightly obloid, 5–8 mm diam. at anthesis, 17–25-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ⅚-united. Pods linear, usually straight-edged to slightly constricted between seeds, to 10 cm long, 5–6 mm wide, thinly coriaceous to firmly chartaceous, dark coloured, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 4–5 mm long, dull, black; funicle encircling seed in a single fold, light reddish brown, yellow when fresh; aril thick.

Variant 1 usually grows in clay or loam in low-lying saline flats or creeklines with saltbush; it sometimes occurs in sand or loam in low woodland or scrubland. Grows well in disturbed sites, particularly gravelly road verges. Variant 2 grows in loam, sand or clay, sometimes with laterite, in low woodland or open shrubland. Variant 3 grows usually in loam, sometimes sand or clay, in shrubland.

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.