Acacia microsperma Pedley

Tree to c. 10 m high. Branchlets often scurfy, subglabrous to appressed-puberulous. Phyllodes linear, ±straight, (4–) 7–14 cm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, acute, often slightly uncinate, green to grey-green, scurfy when young, sparsely and minutely appressed-puberulous, ±glabrescent, with numerous closely parallel, obscure veins. Inflorescences 1–4-headed racemes, sometimes reduced to axillary clusters of heads; raceme axes 0.5–2 mm long; peduncles 3–10 mm long, appressed-puberulous; heads globular, 4.5–5 mm diameter, 20–30 (–40)-flowered, golden; bracteoles spathulate to subpeltate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. ¾-united. Pods submoniliform, straight, to 6 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, non-reticulate, sparsely appressed-puberulous. Seeds longitudinal, narrowly elliptic, 2.5–4 mm long, brown; funicle/aril fleshy, repeatedly folded.

Usually grows in shallow loam or clay over weathered rock, often forming dense stands alone or with Acacia cambagei or Eucalyptus thozetiana.