Acacia calamifolia Sweet ex Lindl.

Shrub 2–4 m high. Branchlets glabrous. New shoots glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly linear, terete to subterete, (2–) 2.5–9.5 (–10.5) cm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, shortly acuminate with delicate, curved point, green to grey-green, glabrous, sometimes scurfy, 4-veined in all; veins not prominent and often ± impressed. Inflorescences 2–8 (–14)-headed racemes; raceme axes 10–25 (–30) mm long, often growing out with some or all peduncles single within phyllode axils; peduncles (3–) 4–10 (–15) mm long, glabrous; heads globular to obloid, (28–) 30–44 (–46)-flowered, pale yellow to golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods moniliform to submoniliform, normally to c. 15 cm long, 3–6 mm wide, ± woody to crustaceous, wrinkled, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, 6–9 mm long, dull to slightly shiny, dark brown to black; funicle half encircling seed, dark reddish; aril clavate.

Grows in a variety of soil types, mainly in woodland and open scrub.

Planted for ornamental and amenity purposes. Potential source of seed for human food (Maslin et al. 1998).

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.