Acacia tolmerensis

Acacia is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to an area of northern Australia.

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The shrub or less frequently tree typically grows to a height of 1 to 4 m (3 ft 3 in to 13 ft 1 in) and has a glabrous and multi-stemmed habit that will often sucker following fires. It has prominently flattened branchlet that are angular towards the tips and covered in a fine white powdery coating. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen, thinly leathery, grey-green phyllodes have a dimidiately elliptic shape and are slightly recurved with a length of 11 to 24.5 cm (4.3 to 9.6 in) and a width of 4 to 9 mm (0.16 to 0.35 in) and have three to four, or sometimes six primary longitudinal nerves. It blooms between November and February and produces racemose inflorescences with spherical flower-heads that have a diameter of 7 to 11 mm (0.28 to 0.43 in) containing about 80 densely packed creamy white to pale yellow coloured flowers. Following flowering leathery to sub-woody seed pods form that are flat with a length of 5 to 11 cm (2.0 to 4.3 in) and a width of 2 to 3 mm (0.079 to 0.118 in). The brown coloured seeds inside have a flattened elliptic shape with a length of 8 to 10 mm (0.31 to 0.39 in) and a terminal aril.