Acacia floydii Tindale

Slender shrub or tree to c. 5 m high; juvenile bipinnate foliage often persistent. Branchlets flat or triquetrous at extremities, dark coloured, glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly linear, 7–12 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, slightly uncinate, thin, glabrous, 1-veined; lateral veins absent; gland pustulate, prominently exserted beyond margin, 3–15 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences 8–11-headed racemes; raceme axes 3–6.5 cm long, slender, glabrous; heads globular, loosely 8–12-flowered, cream; peduncles 5–9 mm long, glabrous. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ¾-united almost to apex. Pods narrowly oblong, to 10 cm long, 8–9 mm wide, coriaceous to thinly coriaceous, dark brown to blackish, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, c. 6 mm long, slightly shiny, blackish; aril clavate.

Grows near rainforest creeks or in moist sand on granite at 900–1100 m alt. in eucalypt forest.