Often dense glabrous shrub or tree, 1–3 m tall. Branchlets flexuose, commonly pruinose. Stipules caducous. Phyllodes horizontally flattened, linear to very narrowly elliptic, 7–15 cm long, 2–15 mm wide, acute to obtuse, often mucronate and ±coarsely pungent, thinly to moderately coriaceous, green or glaucous, 1-or 3-nerved, sometimes obscurely reticulate between nerves; gland on upper surface (3–) 5–12 (–17) mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences 3–6-headed racemes, enclosed when young by conspicuous imbricate scarious striate bracts; raceme axes 2–6 cm long, sometimes growing out during anthesis; peduncles 7–15 mm long; heads globular, 7–8 mm diam., 20–30-flowered, bright golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united into a ±truncate calyx. Pods submoniliform with segments narrowly elliptic, straight to shallowly curved, to 16 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, finely reticulate longitudinally, sometimes pruinose. Seeds longitudinal, 5.5–7 mm long, elliptic to narrowly elliptic or ±narrowly oblong, shiny, black; aril yellow-brown
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A slender shrub or tree. It grows 3-6 m tall. The branches are flexible. The phyllodes are flattened and long and narrow. They are 7-15 cm long by 2-15 mm wide. The flowers are yellow. They are in 3-4 round heads of 20-30 flowers. The seed pods are strgiht of slightly curved and 16 cm long by 4-5 mm wide. The seeds are shiny and black and 5.5-7 mm long.
Occurring commonly in sand, sand over laterite, clayey sand and gravelly sand, less frequently on loam or white beach sand, on sand plains and in woodland or tall shrubland.
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Occurring commonly in sand, sand over laterite, clayey sand and gravelly sand, less frequently on loam or white beach sand, on sand plains and in woodland or tall shrubland.
It is a subtropical plant. It usually grows as an understorey plant.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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