Shrub 1–2.5 m tall, often spindly. Branchlets glabrous. Phyllodes ascending to erect, linear, rarely terete, straight to shallowly incurved, 5–10 cm long, (1–) 2–4 mm wide, narrowed at base, obtuse to acute, mucronulate, with mucro sometimes ±pungent, thick, somewhat rigid, longitudinally rugose, dark green, glabrous; midrib rather prominent; gland (0.5–) 2–8 mm above pulvinus. Racemes 1–6 cm long, 3–8-headed, glabrous; axis ±flexuose; peduncles 4–8 mm long, constricted at receptacle; heads globular, 5.5–6 mm diam., 13–20-flowered, cream; buds often subacute. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods linear, shallowly constricted between seeds, to 10 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; marginal nerve narrow, yellow. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 4.5–4.8 mm long, semi-glossy, black; aril terminal, thick.
Grows in association with granite, often in white, granitic sand, sand over quartzite and rocky sand in scrub mallee and heath.
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