Shrub or tree to 10 m high, single-stemmed. Bark corrugated, dark greyish brown to black on trunk. Branchlets angular towards apices, yellow-brown to red-brown, glabrous, ± resinous. Phyllodes linear, flat, mostly straight to slightly curved, 7–20 cm long, 2–8 (–10) mm wide, with recurved or oblique apices, coriaceous, glabrous, with 1 prominent and usually 2 subprominent main veins continuous to base; minor veins 7–10 per mm, parallel, rarely anastomosing; glands mostly 1, rudimentary, basal. Inflorescences short racemes 2–15 mm long; spikes (1.5–) 2–3.5 cm long, golden. Flowers mostly 5-merous; calyx 0.7–1.1 mm long, dissected to ⅙–¼ of length, densely pubescent; corolla 1.2–2.1 mm long, dissected to ¼–½ of length, glabrous; ovary ± pubescent or glabrous. Pods linear, slightly moniliform, 5–10 cm long, ± coriaceous, longitudinally wrinkled, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic-oblong, 3–5 mm long, black; pleurogram without halo; areole open.
Open woodland or open forest in skeletal rocky soils, often on ridges or hillsides and on flat or undulating land, with mallee eucalypts in red earths; at elevations from 200-1,000 metres.
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Grows in open woodland or open forest in skeletal rocky soils, often on ridges or hillsides and on flat or undulating land, with mallee eucalypts in red earths.
Information on the utilisation potential of this species is given in B.R. Maslin and M.W. McDonald, AcaciaSearch: Evaluation of Acacia as a woody crop option for southern Australia, RIRDC Publication No. 30/017, 80–83 (2004).
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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