Acacia filipes is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is endemic to a small area in northern Australia.
The spreading shrub typically grows to a height of 1m (03feet) and a width of around . It has slender and angular branchlets that are ribbed and resinous. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen and terete phyllodes are glabrous and have a length of and a diameter of with a callus oblique point at the end and eight parallel and longitudinal nerves. It blooms in February and fruits in May. The cylindrical flower-spikes with a length of that occur in pairs at the base of rudimentary axillary shoots on slender stalks; peduncles slender with a length of . After flowering woody, flat and linear seed pods with a length of and a width of . The dark grey seeds with a length of and a width of with a cupular aril.
It is native to a small area in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory mostly within Deaf Adder gorge where it is situated on top of sandstone escarpments as a part of open woodland communities.[1]