Acacia deflexa Maiden & Blakely

Shrub 0.15–2 m high. Branchlets puberulous (hairs ±patent). Phyllodes deflexed or patent becoming deflexed, broadly elliptic, elliptic or narrowly oblong, straight or slightly curved, 6–18 (–20) mm long, 2–5 mm wide, mucronate, commonly centrically so, often ±concave on one face, thick, coriaceous, subappressed-villous especially on nerves, glabrescent, with 3 prominent distant nerves on each face; gland basal. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles (2–) 3.5–5 mm long, densely puberulous; basal bract caducous, cucullate, oblate, ±nerveless; heads globular, 3–3.5 mm diam., 10–16-flowered, pale golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, raised over seeds, strongly curved, to 4.5 cm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, chartaceous, sparingly pilose. Seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic, 2–2.5 mm long, dull, brown, ±mottled; aril subapical.

Grows in heath and low scrub on open plains, in yellow to yellow-brown sand or sandy loam.