Shrub to 2 m tall, dense, slightly aromatic. New shoots, inflorescences and pods resinous. Branchlets with broad flat yellow or green longitudinal bands between narrower brownish resinous ribs at extremities, glabrous. Phyllodes patent to erect, straight to shallowly incurved, terete to flat and linear, 2–5 cm long, 0.7–1.4 mm wide, obliquely truncate and excentrically mucronulate, green, glabrous, obscurely 4-nerved, 1-nerved per face when flat; nerves impressed, sometimes resinous; gland obscure, c. 0.5 mm above pulvinus on a slight angle. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil, sometimes comprising 2-headed rudimentary racemes with axes to 1 mm long; peduncles 2–3 (–5) mm long, appressed-puberulous; basal bract yellow; heads globular, 8-or 9-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. ¾-united, with lobes triangular; petals 1-nerved. Pods curved and/or undulate to irregularly circinnate, 7–8 mm wide, thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to oblong-ovate, c. 4 mm long; aril thick.
Grows in low-lying, seasonally swampy areas in sandy clay or loam in open scrub (near Darkin River) or on low, sandy loam rises in open woodland adjacent to slightly saline flats (near Brookton).
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