Acacia disticha Maslin

Glabrous shrub c. 1 m tall, to 2 m in sheltered situations. Branchlets roughened by raised leaf bases where phyllodes have fallen. Phyllodes distichous on flattened branchlet extremities, spiral with age where branchlets are terete, elliptic, variable in size, 15–43 mm long, 4–22 mm wide, l: w = 2–4, obtuse, thin, green, imperfectly 2-nerved; lateral nerves absent or few and obscure; gland not prominent, 2–5 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple or 2-headed racemes; raceme axes normally c. 4 mm long; peduncles 7–11 mm long; heads globular, loosely 6-or 7-flowered, cream. Flowers 4-merous; sepals c. ¼ length of corolla, united into a ±truncate to sinuolately lobed calyx. Pods spreading to subretrorse by a strongly recurved stipe, narrowly oblong, to 4 cm long, 5–5.5 mm wide, crustaceous to subwoody; margins thick. Seeds (slightly immature) longitudinal, oblong, c. 4 mm long, slightly shiny, brown; aril terminal.

Grows along watercourses in loamy clay or sand and silt, normally in tall shrubland or Eucalyptus eremophila closed scrub where it dominates the low shrub stratum.