Acacia porcata  |  

Acacia porcata is a sprawling shrub growing to less than 5 m tall. Branchlets are cylindrical in cross section, resinous and covered in dense, stiff, white hairs 1 – 1.5 mm long, becoming greyish. Phyllodes (enlarged part of the leaf stalk taking the form of a leaf) are more or less cylindrical in shape (5 – 30 mm long by 0.5 mm in diameter), tapered at the base and end abruptly at a short straight or slightly incurved tip (0.25mm long). Flower heads are ball-shaped and contain 35 – 40 yellow flowers on 10 – 20 mm long, sticky stalks, usually much longer than the phyllodes. Seed pods are flat, sticky, lacking a stalk and measure 11 – 2 7 mm long by 5- 6mm across. They have a ridge on the external surface that is along the middle, above the seeds. The pods contain 1 – 4 seeds arranged lengthways. Seeds are black, shiny and slightly sticky with a slight ridge on the side. Seeds measure 5 mm long by 3.5 mm wide by 1.5 mm thick. The fleshy outer seed covering is white.