Dense shrub or tree to 4 m tall. Branchlets terete, ±ribbed, ±appressed-puberulous. Phyllodes erect, narrowly elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, straight to slightly incurved, 6–12 cm long, 6–17 mm wide, acuminate, ±pungent, rigid, ±glaucous, glabrous, with numerous closely parallel immersed nerves of which ±3 are typically slightly raised. Inflorescences simple, 2–4 per axil; peduncles 5–17 mm long, ±appressed-puberulous; heads globular, 5.5–7.5 mm diam., 54–85-flowered, golden. Flowers 4-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, strongly raised over seeds, straight to slightly curved, to 9 cm long, 5–7 mm wide, chartaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, ovate, 5–6 mm long, glossy, brown; funicle ribbon-like; aril not prominent.
Grows on clay loam flats and sand, often near salt lakes, in tall Acacia shrubland and low woodland.
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