Acacia exudans Lindl.

Slightly aromatic, dense rounded shrub 1–4 m tall. Branchlets not or scarcely flexuose, ±angled at extremities but soon terete, glabrous, often thickly resinous between broad, ±flat-topped rib-like bands of yellow tissue. Stipules normally persistent, brittle therefore sometimes absent, (1–) 2–4 mm long. Phyllodes on persistent, raised stem projections, normally narrowly oblong–elliptic to narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, elliptic when phyllodes very broad, (25–) 30–60 (–70) mm long, (5–) 6–17 (–20) mm wide, somewhat shiny, scattered resinous-punctate, normally glabrous, 2-nerved per face, lateral nerves few and obscure; apices acute or obtuse, mucronate (mucro ±central); gland 0–3 (–4) mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 (3) per axil; peduncles (4–) 5–10 mm long, ±stout, densely tomentose with short, crisped, spreading hairs; basal peduncular bract early caducous or persistent to anthesis, cucullate-rostriform, large (3–4 × 2–3 mm); heads globose, large (6–9 mm wide dry), densely 50–60-flowered; bracteoles exserted in young buds, acute to short-acuminate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united almost to their apices. Pods narrowly oblong, 20–70 mm long, 5–7 (–8) mm wide, thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to circular, 3.8–4.3 mm long, dark brown to black; arillate.

Grows in low undulating country in heath or low eucalypt woodland in areas that have been extensively cleared for agriculture; most remaining plants are found along degraded road verges.