Shapely tree 4–10 (–12) m tall that often forms pure stands. Bark fibrous, fissured, grey. Branchlets sometimes pendulous, slender, glabrous. New shoots citron-sericeous when young; hairs aging to silver. Phyllodes ±falcate, 6–10 (–15) cm long, 4–11 mm wide, acute, innocuous, thinly coriaceous, silvery grey-blue, silvery grey-green or silvery green, appressed-puberulous (hairs sparse with age), finely striate with central nerve slightly more evident than rest. Inflorescences rudimentary 2-headed racemes with axes 0.5–1 mm long; peduncles (4–) 8–12 mm long, appressed-puberulous, sometimes glabrous when in pod; spikes 3–7 (–11) cm long, 4–5 mm diam., interrupted; flowers in clusters along receptacle, golden; receptacle appressed-puberulous with indumentum sometimes sparse. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ⅕–⅙ length of petals, cupular, c. ½-united; petals sparsely hairy. Pods linear to submoniliform, slightly raised over and shallowly constricted between seeds, to 14 cm long, 3–6 (–7) mm wide, thin-crustose, sparsely appressed-puberulous at maturity. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic to broadly elliptic, 6 mm long, glossy, dark brown, aril small.
Grows on loamy, alluvial plains, in low woodland and shrubland, often in pure stands.
Potential uses of Acacia distans are given in J.C. Doran et al., in J.C. Doran & J.W. Turnbull (eds), Australian Trees and Shrubs: Species for Land Rehabilitation and Farm Planting in the Tropics 144–145 (1997).
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