Acacia simulans Maslin

Diffuse open shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets grey, glabrous or sparsely appressed-puberulous. Stipules c. 1 mm long. Phyllodes verticillate with nodes 1-2.5 cm apart, 6-9 per whorl, patent to slightly reflexed, straight or shallowly recurved, tetragonous in section, sometimes trigonous, 8-12 (-15) mm long, 1 mm wide, pungent with a slender cusp 1 mm long, rigid, glabrous, sometimes subglabrous, 4-nerved, sometimes imperfectly 3-nerved, deeply channelled between nerves when dry. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 2-5 (-10) mm long, glabrous; heads globular to slightly obloid, 16-20-flowered, cream to pale yellow. Flowers 4-merous; sepals 2/3-3/4-united. Pods ±moniliform, to 7 cm long, 4 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, dark brown, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, widely oblong-elliptic, c. 4 mm long, slightly shiny, dark brown; aril terminal, conical.

Grows in sand in heath, scrub and shrubland dominated by Eucalyptus tetraptera .