Spreading shrub 2 m high. Branchlets resin-ribbed, white-sericeous especially at nodes but indumentum often ± obscured by resin. Phyllodes ascending, linear to linear-elliptic, straight or weakly curved, 4.5–6 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, obtuse-mucronulate to subacute, glabrous except white-sericeous at base and on pulvinus, with numerous subdistant veins and sometimes few anastomoses between them. Inflorescences 1-or 2-headed racemes or simple; raceme axes 0.5–3 (–7) mm long, terminated by a normally dormant resinous vegetative bud at anthesis; peduncles 3–5 mm long, white-sericeous but indumentum ±obscured by red-brown resin hairs except at base; heads globular, 4–6 mm diam., 34–38-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, raised over seeds, arcuate, to 12 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, glabrous, viscid. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 3.5–4.5 mm long; aril apical.
Grows with Eucalyptus loxophleba or E. salmonophloia along creek and drainage lines, in red or brown clay, clay loam or gravelly loam.
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