Shrub or tree to 4 m high. Bark smooth or fibrous and fissured. Branchlets angular, resinous, glabrous or ±pubescent, with prominent lenticels. Phyllodes linear or very narrowly elliptic, flat, straight or slightly falcate, 2.5–8.5 (–11) cm long, 3–7.5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, stiff, with numerous stomata, glabrous or sometimes ±pubescent, with 2 conspicuous acentral main veins; minor veins 4 or 5 per mm, not anastomosing or joining the margins; gland 1, basal, to 0.5 mm above pulvinus. Spikes 1.2–3 cm long. Flowers 5-merous; calyx cupular, 0.6–0.9 mm long, dissected to ⅓ of length, ciliolate margins; corolla 1.3–1.9 mm long, dissected to ½ of length, glabrous; ovary densely white-pubescent. Pods cultrate to narrowly oblong, straight-sided or scarcely indented, 2.7–6 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, papery, shiny, glabrous. Seeds transverse, broadly elliptic, 3.5–5 mm long, dark brown to black; pleurogram with narrow halo; areole almost closed, pale.
Grows in open eucalypt woodland often with a grassy understorey, in sand, sandy loam, clay and stony laterite.
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