Acacia riceana Hensl.

Prostrate shrub or small tree to 10 m high. Branchlets often pendulous, angular. Phyllodes often fascicled, linear or narrowly lanceolate, hardly acicular, flat, 1.5–5 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, pungent, with 3 veins (one sometimes more prominent); anastomosing veins absent; gland usually basal; pulvinus absent or almost so. Inflorescences with peduncles 5–12 mm long; spikes interrupted, 1.5–3.5 cm long; bracteoles almost sessile, narrowly triangular, 0.7–1 mm long, 0.5–0.7 mm wide. Flowers few, scattered, (3-or) 4-merous; sepals united. Pods linear, constricted between seeds, 6–6.5 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, thin. Seeds elliptic, 4.5–6 mm long, shiny; funicle short, folded several times into a small aril.

It is occasionally locally abundant on hillsides in moist forests and often riparian.