Shrub 0.5–2 m high. Branchlets prominently ribbed, commonly red to brown, glabrous. Stipules 2.5–4 mm long. Pinnae mostly 2 pairs, 3–4 mm long (proximal pinnae), 10–30 mm long (distal pinnae); petiole 1–2 mm long; rachis 3–10 mm long, prominently ribbed adaxially; pinnules 2 pairs (proximal pinnae), 4–10 pairs (distal pinnae), narrowly oblong, 5–12 mm long, 1.5–5 mm wide, flat or slightly recurved, green, glabrous; gland on rachis at base of pinnae, sessile, prominent, with additional smaller glands normally on distal pinna-rachae at base of uppermost 1 or 2 pairs of pinnules. Inflorescences simple, 1–3 per axil; peduncles 10–20 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, large, 28–35-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; calyx often dark brown; sepals ⅚-united; petals 1-nerved. Pods 3–4 cm long, 6–8 mm wide, glabrous. Seeds transverse, oblong to elliptic, 2–3 mm long.
Favours sandy loam near watercourses in forest, and on laterite, mostly in coastal heath, scrub and shrubland.
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