The linear brown seed pods that form after flowering are up to 6.5 cm (2.6 in) in length and around 3 mm (0.12 in) wide.

[2] The species was first formally described by the botanist Leslie Pedley in 1979 as part of the work A revision of Acacia Mill.

Pedley reclassified it as Racosperma burbidgeae but it was transferred back into the genus Acacia in 2001.

[3] The specific epithet honours Nancy Tyson Burbidge, an Australian botanist.

[1] In Queensland its range extends from Cunnamulla in the west to St George in the east and Chinchilla in the north.