Acacia subsessilis A.R.Chapm. & Maslin

Shrub 1-2 m high, rounded or funnel-shaped, straggly. Branchlets with raised stem-projections where phyllodes have fallen, lenticellular, glabrous. Phyllodes sessile to subsessile, mostly narrowly linear, flat to ±terete, 1-3 cm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, pungent, rigid, with 8 nerves in all, 3 nerves per face when phyllodes flat; gland to 0-2 mm above base. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 2-6 mm long, glabrous or sparsely puberulous; heads obloid to short-cylindrical, 7-15 mm long, 4-6 mm diam., subdense. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united for 3/4-4/5 their length. Pods submoniliform, to 8 cm long, 5-6 mm wide, thinly coriaceous to thinly crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds (few seen) longitudinal, elliptic, 3.5-4 mm long, ±shiny, black; aril cream.

Grows in shallow red sand and stony gravel, often on rocky slopes in open shrubland.