Acacia glaucoptera Benth.

Prostrate or erect shrub to 1.5 m high; branches often somewhat gangling. Branchlets straight to slightly flexuose, glabrous. Stipules persistent or caducous. Phyllodes continuous with branchlets, bifariously decurrent and forming opposite wings with each one extending to the next below, usually 2.5–7 cm long and 0.6–2 cm wide, occasionally undulate, coriaceous, glaucous, glabrous except axils densely tomentulose; free portion of phyllode usually 1–4 cm long, acute to shortly acuminate, with main vein evident; gland not prominent. Inflorescences rudimentary 1-headed racemes, with axes to 0.5 mm long; peduncles 3–18 mm long, glabrous, often patent or descending in fruit; heads globular, 5–6 mm diam., 30–80-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ± free; petals nerveless. Pods somewhat irregularly coiled and twisted, subterete to compressed, to 2 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, black, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, ± oblong, 2.5–3.5 mm long; aril terminal, ± conical.

Grows in clay and gravelly soils in woodland, tall shrubland and mallee communities.