Shrub to 1 m tall. Branchlets velvety-tomentose with yellow hairs. Stipules 1–2 mm long. Phyllodes 12–15 per whorl, spreading and incurved to ascending, slightly flattened and grooved on upper surface, 12–20 mm long, shortly mucronate, pubescent. Peduncles 15–30 mm long. Heads 30–40-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.4–0.6 mm long, irregularly lobed for ¼–¾ of its length or rarely to base, glabrous except long hairs at base; corolla lobes smooth, hairy near apex. Pods sessile, broadly linear, ±flat, curved, c. 25 mm long and 10 mm wide, crustaceous-coriaceous, glabrous or with dirty yellow hairs, viscid. Seeds transverse, c. 4 mm long; pleurogram open.
Grows in deep red sand and sandy loam, often over laterite, sandstone or quartzite, in woodland and shrubland, and in seepage areas.
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