Acacia chippendalei Pedley

Shrub usually to 0.5 m tall, spreading. Branchlets velvety-tomentose with ±erect spreading white hairs. Stipules 0.4–1 mm long. Phyllodes in whorls of 8–11, ascending, slightly flattened, ±straight or slightly recurved at apex, 2.5–8 mm long, shortly mucronate, pilose, with an obscure adaxial nerve. Peduncles 4–20 mm long, tomentose to pilose. Heads (10–) 20–25-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.6–1 mm long, sparsely hairy; calyx lobes triangular, obtuse, acute or acuminate; corolla lobes striate, hairy towards apex. Pods sessile, linear, sometimes contracted between seeds, 15–70 mm long, 5–7 mm wide, glabrous, viscid; margins somewhat thickened. Seeds longitudinal or slightly oblique, 3.5–4 mm long; pleurogram open.

Grows in skeletal rocky soils and in deep sand, often of lateritic origin.