Shrub to 2 m tall, glabrous, resinous. Branchlets angular to almost flattened towards apices, brown to dark brown; ridges prominent, resin-crenulated. Phyllodes single or in clusters of 2–4, linear to narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblanceolate, flat, puncticulate, straight to slightly curved, 0.8–2.1 cm long, 1–3.5 mm wide, with inconspicuous margins; midnerve prominent with 1 or 2 inconspicuous longitudinal nerves often not reaching apex; glands 0–3, marginal. Spikes 0.7–3 cm long, pale yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ±free, 0.3–0.6 mm long, glabrous; corolla 0.8–1.5 mm long, dissected to ⅓–½ of its length, glabrous; ovary slightly scurfy. Pods erect, ±linear, broadest above middle and tapered towards base, ±straight-sided, straight to slightly curved, flat, 3–7 cm long, 3.5–7 mm wide, thick, obliquely-longitudinally striate, opening elastically from apex; margins thickened, often narrowly winged. Seeds oblique, oblong-elliptic or narrowly oblong-elliptic, 3–6 mm long, dark brown; areole oblong-elliptic, open, with a pale halo around pleurogram; funicle-aril narrowly conical.
Grows in stony, sandy soils often on laterite or quartzite, in mixed eucalypt woodland or scrubby open forest.
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