 The species was first formally described by the botanist George Bentham in 1837 as part of the work by Bentham, Stephan Endlicher, Eduard Fenzl and Heinrich Wilhelm Schott entitled "Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in Sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus liber baro de Hügel".It was reclassified in 2003 as "Racosperma huegelii" by Leslie Pedley then transferred back to the genus "Acacia" in 2006.The only other synonym is "Acacia huegelii" Benth.