Acacia startii A.R.Chapm. & Maslin

Dense rounded shrub, 1-2 m high. New growth tomentose. Phyllodes ovate to elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 2-5.5 cm long, 8-23 mm wide, l:w = 2-4, obtuse, coriaceous, tomentose and milky green when young, glabrescent and green or occasionally glaucous when mature, prominently 2-nerved; lateral nerves obscure; glands not prominent, 1-7 mm above pulvinus, often also at base of mucro. Inflorescences 3-6-headed racemes, sometimes growing out with subsequent inflorescences, simple; raceme axes 1-4 cm long, tomentose; peduncles 10-25 mm long, normally tomentose; heads globular, densely 30-55-flowered, lemon yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united into a ±truncate calyx. Pods strongly curved to openly once-coiled, to 7 cm long, 3-4 mm wide, crustaceous, tomentulose, subglabrous with age. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 5-6 mm long, glossy, dark brown; aril orange-red (dry).

Grows on plains and hills in loam often associated with limestone, in low shrub and open shrubland.