Acacia spania Pedley

Tree to 15 m high; single-stemmed, glabrous. Bark 'ironbark'-type. Branchlets angular, light brown, scurfy. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to elliptic, flat, straight or sometimes subfalcate, 2-4.5 cm long, (6-) 8-18 mm wide, coriaceous, stiff, slightly glaucous, scurfy, with 3-5 main nerves scarcely prominent; minor nerves c. 10 per mm, longitudinal, very inconspicuous, not anastomosing; gland 1, rudimentary, basal, to 1 mm above pulvinus. Spikes 2.5-4 cm long. Flowers 5-merous; calyx c. 1 mm long, dissected from c. ½ its length to almost to base, slightly hairy at base and slightly brown scurfy at apex; corolla c. 1.5 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous. Pods and seeds unknown.

It occurs as relatively pure stands in shallow red soil surrounded by open eucalypt woodland.