Acacia neriifolia A.Cunn. ex Benth.

Erect shrub or tree to 9 m high; juvenile bipinnate foliage sometimes persistent. Branchlets appressed-puberulous with silvery white hairs (commonly yellow on young shoots), sometimes ± glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to almost linear, straight or recurved, usually 6–15 cm long and 4–9 mm wide, thin, with indumentum as on branchlets; midrib prominent; lateral veins obscure; glands ± pustular, 1–3, with lowermost usually 0–8 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes normally 3–6 cm long, slender, appressed-puberulous with white or pale yellow hairs, sometimes (especially in fruit) ± glabrous; heads showy, globular, 20–40-flowered, vivid golden; peduncles 3–6 mm long, with indumentum as on raceme axes. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united; ovary hairy. Pods to 15 cm long, 5–10 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic or obovate, 5.5–6 mm long, ± dull, black; aril clavate.

Often found on rocky hillsides and ridgetops of granite or sandstone; at elevations up to 1,100 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, pp. 148–152, RIRDC Publication No. 30/017 (2004); see also J.W. Turnbull (ed.), Multipurpose Australian Trees & Shrubs 174–175 (1986) and J.C. Doran et al., in J.C. Doran & J.W. Turnbull (eds), Australian Trees and Shrubs: Species for Land Rehabilitation and Farm Planting in the Tropics 192–193 (1997).

It can be grown from treated seeds.