Acacia cana Maiden

Shrub or tree to 6 m high, with dense spreading crown. Branchlets densely silvery appressed-puberulous, glabrescent. Phyllodes erect, linear to linear-elliptic, straight, (3–) 5–13 cm long, (1.5–) 2–5 mm wide, acuminate, ±pungent, rigid, densely silvery appressed-puberulous but hairs confined to between veins with age, with numerous closely parallel indistinct veins. Inflorescences normally 2–5-headed racemes; raceme axes 1–6 (–10) mm long; peduncles (3–) 4–8 mm long, appressed-puberulous; hairs golden ageing silvery; heads globular, 4.5 mm diam., 25–30-flowered, bright yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free to ½-united. Pods linear, constricted between and slightly raised over seeds, to 10 cm long, (3–) 4–6 (–8) mm wide, coriaceous to chartaceous, longitudinally reticulate, densely appressed-puberulous. Seeds longitudinal.

Grows along watercourses on gibber plains and on sandhills as pure stands of scattered trees and in mixed woodland.