Shrub or tree 2–6 m high, often clonal. Bark red-brown to light brown. Branchlets glabrous. Phyllodes normally patent to inclined, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate, ±straight, 5–11 cm long, 5–15 mm wide (lower ones sometimes 24 mm wide), short-or long-acuminate, thin, grey-green to glaucous, glabrous, with prominent midrib, finely penninerved; glands not prominent, (1–) 2 or 3, with the lowermost normally 3–10 mm above pulvinus. Raceme axes 1–4 cm long, often flexuose, usually ±glabrous; peduncles 3–6 mm long, slender, with indumentum as on raceme axes; heads globular, 20–30-flowered, light golden; bracteoles normally golden-fimbriolate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. ⅚-united. Pods moniliform to submoniliform, to 15 cm long, 6–8 mm wide, thinly coriaceous to firmly chartaceous, dark brown to blackish, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 6–8 mm long, dull, black; funicle sometimes ¾ encircling seed; aril ±clavate.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows up to 4-6 m high. The bark is orange brown and smooth. The leaves are bluish-green and hang down. The flower heads are round. The flowers are yellow. The seeds are large and black.
Arid and semi-arid areas. Eucalyptus woodland, growing on acid to neutral sands and loams, commonly in dune swales or along drainage lines, including the margins of salt lakes.
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It grows around salt lakes and near water courses. It has some fire tolerance. It can grow in arid places.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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