Acacia montana

Viscid shrub or tree, 1–4 m high; branchlets subglabrous to moderately minutely hairy, hairs often antrorsely curved and more or less appressed. Phyllodes narrowly oblong to linear or narrowly elliptic, sometimes oblong-oblanceolate, 1–4 cm long, 2–7 mm wide, rather thin, sometimes obscurely resinous and minutely punctate, glabrous or subglabrous, obtuse; main veins 2, often yellowish, with lateral veins few and forming an often obscure, longitudinal reticulum; gland not prominent, 0.5–2 mm above pulvinus. Peduncles 1 or 2 per axil, 3–9 mm long, glabrous or minutely hairy, basal bract persistent; heads globular to shortly obloid, c. 25-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals quarter to half united. Pods linear, 2–5 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, coriaceous to thinly crustaceous, usually villous; seeds longitudinal, oblong, 3–4 mm long, more or less shiny, dark brown, aril folded at end of seed. Flowers Sep.–Nov.