Shrub or occasionally tree 1–4 m high. Branchlets densely appressed-puberulous between the prominent resinous ribs. Phyllodes ascending to erect, linear to narrowly elliptic, straight to shallowly incurved, (3.5–) 5–11 (–14) cm long, (2–) 3–8 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, with up to 10 slightly raised subdistant ± resinous main veins of which 1 or 2 (3) are more prominent than the rest, with occasional to frequent anastomoses between main veins; gland single. Inflorescences 4–6-headed racemes; raceme axes 5–25 mm long, appressed-puberulous; peduncles 1–4 mm long, appressed-puberulous; heads depressed-globular, 3–4 mm diam., 4–8 (–10)-flowered, light golden, subtended by broad thick outer bracteoles. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united only basally. Pods linear, straight or slightly curved, to 6 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, smooth, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, black; aril apical.
Grows in poor, drier soils, often rocky and/or with a high clay fraction, mostly in eucalypt woodland.
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