Shrub or tree 0.7–3 m high, resinous. Branchlets glabrous. Phyllodes ascending to erect, linear to linear-elliptic, straight to shallowly incurved, 1.5–9.5 cm long, 1–4 mm wide, coriaceous, glabrous, with numerous closely parallel veins; midrib sometimes slightly more evident than the rest. Inflorescences simple, mostly 2 per axil; peduncles 2–5 mm long, to 8 mm in fruit, glabrous or puberulous; heads globular, 3.5–4 mm diam., 19–26-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ¾-united. Pods linear, slightly raised over seeds, slightly curved, to 6 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, firmly chartaceous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, 3–3.5 mm long, glossy, brown-black, mottled; aril apical.
Grows in white, yellow, red or light brown sand, granitic loamy sand and gravelly sand on plains of low relief in scrub dominated by species of various eucalypts, Acacia or Allocasuarina acutivalvis.
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