Acacia linearifolia Maiden & Blakeley

Shrub or tree to c. 10 m high; juvenile bipinnate foliage may persist on lower branches. Branchlets dark reddish, glabrous, sometimes scurfy. Phyllodes narrowly linear, 6–14 cm long, (1–) 2–5 mm wide, apices recurved-mucronate to uncinate, thin, smooth, green to greyish green, glabrous, 1-veined; lateral veins absent or obscure; glands pustular, occasionally 2, with lowermost 1–6 cm above pulvinus. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes normally 2.5–6 cm long, glabrous; heads globular, rather densely 20–30-flowered, golden; peduncles 2–4 mm long, glabrous. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods raised on opposite sides over alternate seeds, normally shallowly constricted between seeds, to c. 12 cm long, 5–7.5 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, reddish brown, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 5–6 mm long, shiny, black; funicle short; aril clavate.

Temperate forests, where it grows commonly in colluvial sand on lower slopes of sandstone hills; growing at elevations up to 650 metres.

Information on the utilisation potential of this species is given in B.R.Maslin and M.W.McDonald, AcaciaSearch: Evaluation of Acacia as a woody crop option for southern Australia, RIRDC Publication No. 30/017, 114–117 (2004).

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.