Acacia pickardii Tindale

Bushy shrub or tree 3–5 m high, spreading by suckering. Branchlets glabrous or subglabrous, scurfy. Stipules spinose, (3–) 5–12 mm long, spreading. Phyllodes ±sessile, ±erect, terete, 2–6.5 cm long, 1–2 mm diam., pungent, with slender cusp, rigid, minutely hirtellous, occasionally glabrous, often scurfy, obscurely 4-veined; gland ±basal, discoidal, to 0.7 mm diam., with a smaller gland at base of cusp. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 1.5–2.5 cm long, minutely hirtellous; heads globular, 35–40-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free ('united' in protologue). Pods narrowly oblong, to 4 cm long and 14 mm wide, chartaceous, finely and openly obliquely reticulate, light brown, glabrous. Seeds (very immature) seemingly transverse with a filiform, straight funicle.

Grows on gibber-covered sandplains and in stony sand over clay on low residual mesas and adjacent flats, in association with Atriplex and Sclerolaena spp.