Acacia praemorsa P.J.Lang & Maslin

Glabrous shrub 1–3 m high, often suckering. Branchlets angled at extremities. Phyllodes linear, ±incurved, 2–9 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, obliquely truncate at apex, flat but thick, smooth but finely longitudinally rugulose when dry; midrib absent or scarcely evident superficially; glands 2, with apical gland brown and adjacent to blunt mucro, and basal gland inconspicuous and 6–18 mm above indistinct pulvinus. Inflorescences mostly 1-headed racemes; raceme axes 1.5–3.5 mm long, often growing out; peduncles 6–12 mm long; heads globular, 34–58-flowered, bright golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, to 13.5 cm long, 5–8.5 mm wide, crustaceous to ±cartilaginous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic-lenticular, 4.5–6.5 mm long, punctulate, subnitid, dark brown; aril ⅖–⅗ length of seed.

Grows in loam on lower slopes and at base of steep gullies, in the zone of contact between dense open heath and open tall shrubland or open scrub.