Acacia legnota Pedley

Shrub to tree 2–4 m high. Bark smooth, grey, with prominent white lenticels. Branchlets glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate-elliptic, strongly falcate, 12–18 cm long, 8–19 mm wide, long-attenuate basally, obtuse or acute, mucronulate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, with 6–8 main veins and ± sparsely longitudinally anastomosing minor veins in between. Inflorescences 1-or 2-headed racemes, sometimes simple, 2–4 per axil; raceme axes 2–7 mm long, glabrous; peduncles 10–25 mm long, glabrous; basal bract persistent; heads globular, 5–6 mm diam., c. 35-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ± free. Pods linear, rounded over seeds along midline, straight, to 12 cm long, 9–11 mm wide, coriaceous, glabrous; margins prominent. Seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic, c. 5 mm long, dull, dark brown; areole closed; aril clavate.

Grows in coastal sands of dunes and in shrubby heathland, often along streams or lagoons.