Acacia macradenia Benth.

Shrub or tree 3–5 m high. Branchlets pendulous to subpendulous, flexuose, glabrous. Stipules to 5 mm long, reflexed, indurate at maturity. Phyllodes patent to reflexed, narrowly elliptic to ±narrowly oblong, 13–25 cm long, (0.8–) 1–2.5 (–5) cm wide, narrowed and curved at base, commonly acuminate, glabrous; midrib prominent and contiguous with abaxial margin near base; lateral veins diverging widely from midrib and anastomosing; gland 0–10 (–15) mm above pulvinus, elongate, sometimes with 1 or 2 additional smaller glands above middle. Inflorescences 8–15-headed racemes, prolific in upper axils; raceme axes 2–5 cm long, glabrous; peduncles 3–6 mm long, ±glabrous; heads globular, densely 35–50-flowered, golden. Flowers 5‑merous; sepals c.¾-united. Pods to 12 cm long, 5–6 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, ±oblong, c. 4 mm long; funicle-aril about as long as seed.

Grows in stony and sandy soil, often near creeks, in woodland or sometimes vine thicket.

A decorative species, common in cultivation in eastern Australia.

It can be grown by seeds.