Acacia chrysocephala Maslin

Compact subshrub 0.3–0.5 m tall. Branchlets ribbed, sparsely to moderately puberulous, shortly pilose or strigulose, with hairs patent or appressed. Phyllodes inequilateral, obtriangular to shallowly obtriangular with a prominent gland-bearing angle on adaxial margin, obliquely truncate, with adaxial proximal margin ±congruent with branchlet, 3–12 mm long, 1.5–10 mm wide, commonly pungent, glabrous or sparsely puberulous; midrib near abaxial margin, with a minor nerve extending from base towards the gland. Inflorescences simple, commonly 1 per axil; peduncles 0.5–3 (–5) mm long, glabrous or subglabrous; heads globular, 2–4-flowered, golden; buds acute. Flowers 4-merous; sepals ½–¾-united, with ±triangular lobes; petals prominently 1-nerved at apex. Pods shallowly curved, to c. 3 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, coriaceous-crustaceous, glabrous or hairy; margins thick. Seeds longitudinal, ±oblong, 2.5–3 mm long, shiny, brown or grey-brown, arillate.

Grows mainly in sand over laterite or clay; in the W of its range it occurs in Wandoo (Eucalyptus wandoo) woodland and Jarrah (E. marginata) forest and in the E in mallee scrub and shrubland or rarely in low heath.