Acacia falcata Willd.

Slender shrub or tree 2–5 m high. Branchlets acutely angled at extremities, red-brown, commonly lightly pruinose, glabrous. Phyllodes falcate, broadest above middle, much-narrowed at base, 7–19 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, thin, grey-green to glaucous, sometimes green, glabrous, with excentric midrib, obscurely penniveined; gland not prominent, 0–5 mm above pulvinus; pulvinus c. 5 mm long. Inflorescences 9–22-headed racemes; raceme axes normally 2–6 cm long, sparsely to moderately ± appressed-puberulous, with hairs white or light golden and sometimes absent in fruit; peduncles 3–4 mm long, with indumentum as on raceme axes; heads globular, 15–20-flowered, creamy white. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ± free. Pods linear, to 12 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, blackish, often lightly pruinose, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to ovate-elliptic, 3.5–4.5 mm long, somewhat shiny, black; funicle encircling seed in a single fold, light brown; aril clavate.

A common element of the understorey of Eucalyptus communities, often in shallow stony soil.

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.