[1] The sub-shiny dark brown seeds are flattened and have an oblong to broadly elliptic shape and a length of 6 to 10 mm (0.24 to 0.39 in).

[2] The species was first formally described by the botanist Joseph Maiden in 1896 as part of the work A giant Acacia from the Brunswick River as published in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.

It was reclassified as Racosperma bakeri by Leslie Pedley in 1987 the transferred back to genus Acacia in 2001.

[3] The specific epithet honours Richard Thomas Baker who worked for the Sydney Technological Museum and collected the type specimen.

[2] The natural range of distribution is from Brunswick Heads and Mullumbimby in northeastern New South Wales to around the Burrum River in the Maryborough of southeastern Queensland[2] where it is commonly a part of wet sclerophyll Eucalyptus forest and rainforest communities.