Acacia daphnifolia Meisn.

Shrub or tree 2.5–4 m high, normally multistemmed, often clonal by root-suckering. Bark light grey, mostly smooth. Branchlets glabrous. Phyllodes normally patent, sometimes sub-pendulous, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic or sometimes narrowly oblong-elliptic, straight to shallowly recurved, (4–) 6–10 cm long, (4–) 6–15 (–27) mm wide, broadest phyllodes are on sucker regrowth, obtuse to acuminate, thinly coriaceous, glaucous to subglaucous or dull green, glabrous, 1-veined per face, finely penniveined; gland not prominent, (4–) 7–20 (–27) mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes 1.5–5 cm long, densely appressed-puberulous with light golden or silvery white hairs that are often sparse or absent at base of axes; peduncles 2–4 mm long, to 6 (–7) mm in fruit, indumentum as on raceme axes; heads globular, 3–4 mm diam. (dry), 17–30-flowered, golden, showy, delicately fragrant; bracteole laminae fimbriolate. Flowers 5-merous, sepals united. Pods moniliform to submoniliform, 8–20 cm long, 7–9 (–10) mm wide, thinly coriaceous, dark brown to blackish (dry), glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 7–9 mm long, 5–5.5 mm wide, dull or slightly shiny, minutely verruculose, dark brown to back, ½ to wholly encircled by creamy white (fresh) or light-to mid-brown (dry), slender funicle; aril clavate.

Grows in flat or low-undulating country where it often occurs in lower parts of the landscape in water-gaining sites. Commonly grows in association with granite and favours sandy loam or clay-loam soils. It often occurs on degraded road verges where it commonly forms localised clonal clumps.