Shrub to 4 m high. Branchlets ± terete, pruinose, with a sparse to moderately dense indumentum of spreading hairs 0.3–0.5 mm long which extend to the leaf axes. Young foliage silvery grey tinged with yellow. Leaves grey-green to silvery blue; petiole 3–8 mm long, a poorly defined gland between or slightly below lowest pair of pinnae; rachis 5–15 mm long, with jugary gland present or absent between most distal pair of pinnae; interjugary glands absent; pinnae 2 or 3 pairs, 13–20 mm long; pinnules 6–9 pairs, oblong, rounded at base and tip, 6–9 mm long, 1.4–2.8 mm wide, concolorous, glabrous or with scattered subappressed hairs on margins or lower surface, midrib obscure beneath. Inflorescences axillary racemes with up to 8 branches, 20–55 mm long. Peduncle 3–5 mm long, glabrous. Heads (described as yellow) 20–24-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; calyx obconical, somewhat angular, 0.6–0.7 mm long; lobes obtuse and c. 0.2 mm long. Pods seen only immature (possibly 6 to 8 weeks to maturity) linear, to c. 6 cm long, densely appressed hairy. Seeds not seen.
Associated trees are Corymbia bunites, C. watsoniana subsp. watsoniana, Eucalyptus fibrosa subsp. fibrosa, Angophora leiocarpa and Lysicarpus angusifolius.
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