Acacia maconochieana Pedley

Tree to 12 m tall. Bark longitudinally fissured, grey. Branchlets densely silvery white appressed-puberulous towards extremities. Phyllodes linear, 8–18 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, densely silvery white appressed-puberulous; hairs confined to between the nerves with age, with numerous closely parallel fine nerves. Inflorescences 2–4-headed racemes; raceme axes 2–3 mm long, appressed-puberulous; peduncles 5–8 mm long, densely appressed-puberulous; hairs pale yellow ageing white; heads globular, c. 5 mm diam., 20–25-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ¾-united. Pods submoniliform, raised over and constricted between seeds, straight, to 13 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, coriaceous, longitudinally reticulate, densely white appressed-puberulous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to broadly elliptic, 4–6 mm long, black; aril small, white.

It is a tropical plant. It grows on heavy alkaline soils in the hot semiarid and sub-humid tropics. It can tolerate salinity and waterlogging. It grows in low lying areas in north Australia. It can tolerate frost.

The seeds are eaten. They are also ground up into flour then cooked and eaten as flat bread.

Plants are grown from seed. They will grow without hot water treatment. They can be soaked in cold water.