Acacia gloeotricha is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is endemic to north western Australia.
The open viscid shrub typically grows to a height of 4m (13feet) and has finely ribbed hairy branchlets with persistent stipules. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The erect grey-green coloured phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic shape that is asymmetric with a length of and a width of .[1] It blooms in June producing yellow flowers. The simple inflorescences occur in pairs in the axils and have cylindrical shaped flower-spikes that are about in length with bright-golden flowers. The brown crustaceous seed pods that form after flowering have a linear shape and are raised over the seeds. The pods have a width of with thick pale-coloured margins. The shiny black seeds are arranged longitudinally in the pods and have a broadly elliptic shape with a length of around and a white aril.[1]
It is native to an area in the Kimberley region of Western Australia where it has a limited range within the Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges where it grows in sandy soils over a sandstone substrate.[1]