Slender erect shrub or small tree, 1.5–6 m high. Bark smooth to fissured and fibrous, grey-brown. Branchlets angular, soon terete, light to reddish brown, glabrous, often resinous. Phyllodes linear to linear-elliptic, flat, straight to slightly curved, 7–23 cm long, 1.5–5 (–8) mm wide, coriaceous, glabrous, scurfy, with a prominent midnerve and often a subprominent longitudinal nerve either side of it, with 5–9 nonanastomosing minor nerves per mm; gland inconspicuous, basal. Spikes 1.5–4.8 cm long, densely flowered, yellow. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.5–0.75 mm long, dissected to ¼–⅓ of length, with lobes rounded, densely villous; corolla 1.25–1.5 mm long, dissected to ½–⅔ of length, glabrous, with prominent midrib; ovary pubescent, sparsely so at base, villous at apex. Pods submoniliform, with segments ±fusiform, straight to curved, 6–15 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, thinly woody, longitudinally furrowed, glabrous, slightly resinous when young. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic to broadly elliptic, dorsiventrally flattened, 4–6.5 mm long, dark brown; pleurogram a U-shaped line, surrounded by two pale haloes; areole slightly raised, open, pale.
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A tall shrub. It grows to 5 m with a straight erect stem. The bark is grey and finely cracked near the base. The small branches are angular and smooth. The leaves (phyllodes) are thin and hang down. They are pale green with a main central vein and fine veins along the leaf. The flower is made up of 1-4 balls in each leaf angle. They are yellow. The pods are light brown. The pods are constricted between the seeds. They have wrinkles along their length. The seeds are brown. Where the seed joins it is pale green.
Usually found in red sand, also in stony sand or sandy loams, in savannah grasslands associated with Triodia , also along creeks; at elevations up to 1,300 metres.
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Usually found in red sand, also in stony sand or sandy loams, in savannah grasslands associated with Triodia , and along creeks.
It is a tropical plant. They grow in red sand. It grows in the Great Sandy Desert in NW Australia. It can grow in arid places.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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