Spreading shrub 1–3 m high; branches pendulous. Bark smooth, grey, brown or greenish brown. Branchlets ±terete, inconspicuously ridged, blue-black, sparsely to densely pilose with white or fawn hairs, or sometimes glabrous. Young foliage-tips cream-coloured or pale ferruginous. Leaves herbaceous, dark green, rarely over 2.5 cm long, subsessile with basal pinnae arising immediately or to 0.5 mm above pulvinus, mostly with a minute orbicular gland at insertion of basal pair of pinnae; rachis (0.1–) 0.4–1.2 cm long, usually with 1 or 2 (twinned) minute glands at base of uppermost and occasionally other pairs of pinnae; interjugary glands absent; pinnae 1–5 pairs, 0.3–1.2 cm long; pinnules 5–13 pairs, oblong to narrowly oblong, 1.5–3 (–4) mm long, 0.4–1 mm wide, glabrous or with fine hairs on margins and beneath, broadly rounded or acute and slightly wider at apex. Inflorescences mostly in axillary racemes, sometimes in terminal false-panicles or single; axes to 4 times longer than leaves, 1–6 cm long, very flexuose. Heads globular, 7–12 mm diam., 30–45-flowered, golden or dark yellow. Pods straight-sided or very slightly indented between seeds, 1.5–9.5 cm long, 5–9 mm wide, thinly or thickly coriaceous, black or brown, densely pilose to glabrous.
Grows in scrubland, Eucalyptus –Callitris woodland and open forest, in stony places at high elevations, in sandy soils over granite or porphyries.
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