Dense spreading shrub 1–2 m high. Branchlets red-brown, glabrous. Phyllodes terete or (especially when dry) ±flat and linear, straight to shallowly incurved, 1–4.5 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, narrowed at base, mucronulate, thick and fleshy, pale green, glabrous, with 10–15 fine distant nerves obscured by surface wrinkling when dry. Inflorescences simple or sometimes rudimentary 1–3-headed racemes with axes to c. 1 mm long; peduncles mostly 4–10 mm long, glabrous; basal bract persistent, c. 0.5 mm long; heads globular, 3–4 mm diam., 18–20-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, spathulate. Pods linear, irregularly constricted between and raised over seeds, curved becoming twisted, to 7 cm long, ±5 mm wide, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, c. 4.5 mm long, glossy, brown; funicle/aril folded, fleshy.

Acacia pinguifolia — Fat-leaved Wattle