Spreading much-branched glabrous shrub, to 0.7 m high. Bark light grey. Branchlets rigid, terete, not ribbed, coarsely pungent. Phyllodes mostly ±patent, terete, 7-26 mm long, c. 1 mm diam., prominently dilated at the sessile base, pungent, rigid, green, nerveless. Inflorescences mostly 2-or 3-headed rudimentary racemes with axes c. 1 mm long, enclosed by conspicuous imbricate brown bracts when young, growing out at anthesis; peduncles 5-7 mm long; heads globular, c. 8-flowered, cream; bracteoles absent. Flowers 5-merous; sepals irregularly united almost to the apices into a cupular calyx, minute; petals linear to spathulate, c. 0.2 mm wide. Pods linear, subterete, to 5 cm long, 2-3 mm wide, crustaceous, dark brown. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 3.5-4 mm long, dark brown; aril terminal, white.
Grows in calcareous loam or sandy loam, on plains or low rocky hills, in Eucalyptus woodland or mallee communities.
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