Spreading shrub or tree 1–10 m high. Bark thin, fibrous and longitudinally fissured. Young new growth yellow-green sericeous. Branchlets sometimes pendulous, slightly angular to terete, glabrous to minutely sericeous. Phyllodes linear to very narrowly elliptic, ±straight to shallowly arcuate, flat, 9–23 (–30) cm long, 1–7 (–8) mm wide, acute to acuminate, coriaceous to rigid-coriaceous, occasionally subglabrous to sericeous between numerous closely parallel fine veins. Inflorescences mostly 1-or 2-headed racemes; raceme axes minute, rarely to 6 mm long; peduncles 3–10 (–13) mm long, sericeous, sometimes glabrous when in pod; heads globular, 3–8 mm diam., 15–50-flowered, pale lemon yellow to cream-coloured. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ½–¾-united. Pods moniliform, irregularly curved before dehiscence, twisted and/or openly coiled or openly curved, to 32 cm long, 5–13 mm wide, coriaceous, longitudinally nerved, normally minutely appressed-puberulous. Seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic, 4–8 mm long, glossy, black; aril large, bright orange.
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It is a bushy tree. It grows up to 3-10 m high and 2-4 m across. The trunk is well defined and the bark grey and corky. The young branches are ash grey. The leaves (phyllodes) are very long and thin. They are 12-35 cm long by 0.1-0.5 cm wide. They are flat and covered with fine silvery hairs. They hang downwards. The flowers are golden fluffy balls. Each flower stalk has 30-40 small flowers. The pod is 15-23 cm long and 0.8-1 cm wide. It is curved and twisted. It is leathery and covered with fine hairs. The seeds are black with a red dot. They are relatively large.
Sand dunes and plains, usually in Acacia scrub and shrubland but with disjunct populations in open eucalypt woodland. Flats and very gently undulating plains; along seasonal watercourses in the drier part of its range.
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Sand dunes and plains, usually in Acacia scrub and shrubland but with disjunct populations in open eucalypt woodland. Flats and very gently undulating plains; along seasonal watercourses in the drier part of its range.
It is a warm temperate plant. It grows in deep, red, sandy soils. It grows naturally in arid and semi arid regions. Soils need to be well drained. It is drought tolerant. It can grow in arid places.
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