Erect or spreading shrub or small tree to 8 m. From Blackdown Tableland, South-East Queensland, through eastern NSW and ACT to eastern Victoria, with a western outlier near Longwood, Victoria. Phyllodes oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, straight to slightly curved, usually 5-15 cm long and 7-40 mm wide, glabrous, midvein and marginal veins prominent, finely penniveine.
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Flowers
Flowers are pale yellow to white puff balls.
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Seed pods
Seed pods straight or slightly curved, flattish, straight-sided to slightly or irregularly more deeply constricted between seeds, 5-20 cm long, 10-17 mm (sometimes wider), somewhat leathery.
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Varieties
A. penninervis is regarded as comprising two varieties; however, future studies may show that var. longiracemosa warrants species status. Both varieties are variable, especially in Queensland (World Wide Wattle).
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