Shrub to 5 m high. Branchlets angular at apices, yellow-ribbed, ±appressed-puberulous. Phyllodes patent to ascending, linear, mostly ±incurved, 5–13 cm long, 1.5–6 mm wide, obtuse to truncate-obtuse, mucronate or curved-acute, thin-coriaceous, glabrous, with 3 raised distant veins and infrequent anastomoses in between. Inflorescences 2-or 3-headed racemes, sometimes appearing simple; raceme axes 1–14 mm long, appressed-puberulous; peduncles 5–16 mm long, appressed-puberulous; heads globular, ± 5 mm diam., 20–42-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ½–⅔-united. Pods linear, strongly raised over seeds, straight, to 9 cm long, 3.5–6 mm wide, thin-coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic to oblong, 3–4 mm long, glossy, dark brown; aril apical.
Grows in sandy soils in upland eucalypt woodlands, along watercourses and swamps and in heathland with various species of Melaleuca, Banksia and Leptospermum.
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