Acacia falciformis Dc.

Shrub or tree to 12 m high, sometimes taller. Branchlets glabrous. Phyllodes ± pendulous, usually falcate and 10–22 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide, narrowed at base, grey-green to glaucescent, glabrous, with prominent midrib, finely penninerved; gland 5–30 mm above pulvinus; margin indented at gland which is connected to midrib by a fine oblique vein. Inflorescences 5–18-headed racemes, sometimes in terminal panicles; raceme axes 2–10 cm long, usually yellow appressed-puberulous at least near apices; peduncles 4–10 mm long, usually yellow appressed-puberulous; heads globular, 20–30-flowered, creamy yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods mostly 5–13 cm long and 15–25 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, slightly pruinose, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to ± elliptic, 5.5–7 mm long, slightly shiny, black; funicle thickly filiform, often folded below seed, dark reddish brown; aril clavate.

Found in clay loam in sclerophyll forest or woodland, mostly at elevations from 800-1,200 metres. Common on moderate to steep slopes in hilly and mountainous country and it extends to gentle slopes.

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.