Acacia terminalis

The sunshine wattle is a member of the pea or Fabaceae family and is native to southeastern Australia in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. It is a shrub or small tree growing up to 6 m in height.

• Bark is smooth, grey or brown; branchlets are angled, brown, reddish brown or blackish, often glabrous to densely pubescent, with low longitudinal ridges.
• Leaves are bipinnate, with 1–8 pairs of pinnae 1.3–9 cm long, petiole 0.7–4.3 cm long; pinnules are prominently discolorous, dark green and shiny above, paler and dull below, with 5–21 pairs, mostly oblong to narrowly oblong, elliptic to narrowly elliptic or narrowly ovate to lanceolate, each leaf 1.9–18 mm long, 0.9–5.7 mm wide, flat, glabrous or ciliate, with midnerve prominent and apex mostly acute to acuminate.
• Inflorescences are in in axillary or terminal racemes or false-panicles, heads being 5–14-flowered, cream-coloured, pale yellow or golden yellow.
• Pods straight or curved, 3.5–10 cm long, 12–19 mm wide, coriaceous, purplish, blackish or reddish brown, with minor transverse nerves, often darker and rough over seeds, glabrous; margins paler, prominent.