Acacia gilesiana F.Muell.

Shrub 2–3 m tall, spreading, glabrous. Branchlets terete, at first slightly ribbed. Phyllodes ascending to erect, straight to shallowly curved, terete, 5–24 cm long, 1.5–1.8 mm diam., coarsely pungent to innocuous, thick, rigid, ±glaucous, with 8 (rarely more) distant immersed yellowish nerves; minute gland towards base; a second gland sometimes near apex. Inflorescences 2–8-headed racemes; raceme axes 25–30 mm long; peduncles 10–20 mm long; heads globular, 5–6 mm diam., 20–37-flowered, golden; bracteoles peltate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods narrowly oblong, slightly constricted between seeds, slightly curved, flat, to 13 cm long, 1–1.5 cm wide, chartaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic, ±6 mm long, exarillate.

Grows mostly in deep red sand in low open woodland and tall shrubland, often with mulga and spinifex.