Acacia aspera

Spreading, viscid shrub, 0.5–2 m high; branchlets ribbed, slightly roughened, covered in coarse hairs, at least some gland-tipped. Phyllodes oblong-linear to narrowly oblong-elliptic or narrowly obovate, usually 1–3 cm long, 2–4(–7) mm wide, coriaceous, slightly roughened, indumentum as on branchlets except sparser, mucronate with oblique point; midrib prominent; stipules normally 1–2 mm long. Peduncles 1 or 2 per axil, 2–16 mm long, at least some hairs of indumentum usually gland-tipped, basal bract persistent; heads globular, (15–)30–50-flowered, pale yellow to golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods narrowly oblong to linear, usually rounded over seeds, 1.5–6 cm long, 3–6 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, curved, densely covered in coarse hairs, some or all gland-tipped; seeds longitudinal, oblong, 4–5 mm long, shiny, dark brown, aril terminal.