Dense to mid-dense rounded to funnel-shaped shrub 1-–2 m tall. Branchlets slightly flexuose, finely ribbed, glabrous. Phyllodes erect, linear, straight to shallowly incurved, 4–9 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, narrowed towards base, acute to obtuse-mucronulate (mucro sometimes coarsely pungent), slightly thickened, finely longitudinally wrinkled when dry, light green, glabrous; midrib not prominent; gland 1 cm or more above pulvinus. Inflorescences 2-headed racemes; raceme axes 1–2 mm long, glabrous; peduncles 5–8 mm long; heads globular, 4–5 mm diam., 18–21-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods (immature) linear, to 6 cm long, 3.5 mm wide, glabrous; marginal nerve narrow. Seeds (immature) longitudinal.
Grows in sand or clay loam, in seasonal swamps or around periphery of salt lakes and marshes, in tall mytaceous shrubland and mallee woodland.
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