Tree to 13 m high with pendulous branches. Bark hard, fissured, dark grey to black. Branchlets slender, appressed-puberulous, glabrescent. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to very narrowly elliptic, straight to recurved, 4–14 cm long, (3–) 4–10 mm wide, with an innocuous acute to acuminate and normally shallowly curved apex, ± thinly coriaceous, ± glaucous, densely appressed-puberulous especially when young, glabrescent, with numerous closely parallel veins of which 1–3 more evident than the rest. Inflorescences 2–7-headed racemes; raceme axes 2–15 mm long, appressed-puberulous; peduncles 3–8 mm long, appressed-puberulous; heads globular, c. 3.5–5 mm diam., occasionally larger, 10–25-flowered, light golden; bracteoles spathulate. Flowers 5‑merous; sepals free to ½-united. Pods narrowly oblong, flat, slightly raised over and irregularly slightly constricted between seeds, straight, curved or twisted, to 13 cm long, 8–18 (–20) mm wide, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, coarsely reticulate, appressed-puberulous; margins ±winged, c. 2–3 mm wide. Seeds transverse, soft, broadly elliptic to ± discoid, 5–9 mm long; funicle/aril fleshy.
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An evergreen shrub or tree. It grows 6 m high and spreads 3 m across. The stem is erect and the branches hang down. The leaves (phyllodes) are light bluish-green. They are narrow and 8 cm long. The flowers are creamy yellow balls. They are in small clusters. The pods are brown.
Details on the utilisation of A. pendula are given in G.M. Cunningham et al., Plants of Western New South Wales 369 (1981), J.W. Turnbull (ed.), Multipurpose Australian Trees and Shrubs 180–181 (1986) and D.J. Boland et al., Forest Trees of Australia 5th edn, 170–171 (2006). Foliage eaten by stock. Because of the pale, silvery foliage and form of the crown of the tree, Weeping Myall Acacia pendula has been cultivated extensively in this country and abroad, as, for example, in Iran and Kuwait.
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The ashes are added to flour for damper.
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