Spreading shrub 0.1-1 m high. Branchlets short, slender, straight, inclined to ascending, spinescent, glabrous to subglabrous. Phyllodes ±erect, narrowly oblong to linear, horizontally flattened, 7-13 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, obtuse, green, glabrous or subglabrous, with obscure nerves, 1-nerved on upper surface, 3-nerved and sparsely reticulate on lower surface; gland on upper surface near apex, often absent. Inflorescences rudimentary 1-headed racemes with axes to 1 mm long; peduncles 5-10 mm long, glabrous; heads slightly obloid, 20-25-flowered, golden; bracteole laminae evident in bud, white-fimbriolate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods straight to curved, to 5 cm long, 3-4 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal to oblique, ovate, 2-2.5 mm long, shiny, obscurely mottled; aril ±as long as seed.
Grows in sand, lateritic sand, sandy loam, loam and rocky loam, often on sandplains, in low shrubland of Acacia spp. and Melaleuca .
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