Acacia rubida

Shrub or tree, usually 1.5–5m high, juvenile bipinnate leaves often persistent; branchlets red to reddish-brown, usually glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 5–20 cm long, 5–25 mm wide, falcately recurved to straight, green to somewhat glaucous, normally drying reddish at least on margins and midrib, narrowed at base, acuminate to obtuse; midrib prominent, obscurely pinnately veined; gland 1–4 cm above pulvinus, margin often shallowly indented at gland which is sometimes connected to midrib by a fine oblique vein. Raceme with rachis usually 2–7 cm long, glabrous or with appressed, minute hairs; peduncles usually 2–4 mm long, glabrous or sparsely hairy; heads globular, 10–20-flowered, light golden; bracteole lamina circular, dark brown, densely white-fimbriate, evident in buds. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods linear or partly to entirely moniliform, 5–12 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, glabrous, lightly pruinose; seeds longitudinal, oblong, 4–5.5 mm long, slightly shiny, dark brown to black; funicle encircling seed in single or double fold, dark red-brown. Flowers Aug.–Oct.