Dense, commonly rounded, multistemmed, glabrous shrub or tree 2–5 m high, sometimes to 7 m. Bark grey, fissured on trunks and main branches. Branchlets angled or flattened at extremities; cuticle often white. Phyllodes mostly ascending to erect, narrowly linear, straight to shallowly incurved, (7–) 9–15 (–18) cm long, 2–5 mm wide, acute, often shallowly recurved at apex, thin, flexible, green or subglaucous, 1-veined; lateral veins obscure or absent. Inflorescences 4–9-headed racemes, enclosed when young by imbricate bracts; raceme axes (4–) 7–15 (–22) mm long; peduncles 6–12 (–15) mm long, slender; heads prolific, globular, 25–35-flowered, bright light golden, fragrant; bracteoles absent. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods narrowly oblong, to 8.5 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, chartaceous, light brown. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic or ovate, 4–5 mm long, dull, dark brown to blackish, yellowish at centre, exarillate.
Grows in flat, low-lying areas, in red-brown sand or loam, in woodland or shrubland.
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Flat, low-lying areas, in red-brown sand or loam, in woodland or shrubland.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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