Shrub or tree 2–5 (– 7) m high, often slender or spindly. Branchlets normally pruinose, glabrous. Phyllodes (adult) oblanceolate to obovate, ± straight to shallowly recurved, (5–) 6–10.5 (–12) cm long, (1.2–) 1.5–3.5 (–4.3) cm wide, often larger on juvenile plants, apices rounded to broadly obtuse, ± attenuated at base, thinly coriaceous, grey-green aging pruinose, glabrous, midrib prominent, finely penninerved; gland 1 (–2), the lowermost 10–30 mm above pulvinus, connected to midrib by a fine, oblique vein. Inflorescences axillary and terminal racemes and/or panicles; raceme axes (1–) 3–7 (–9) cm long, glabrous; peduncles 2–4 (–5) mm long, glabrous; heads globular to ovoid, (25–) 30–40-flowered, yellow to golden; bracteoles peltate, the laminae subcircular, 0.3–0.5 mm diam., brown, fimbriolate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods linear, to 12 cm long, 5–7.5 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic to oblong, 4–6 mm long, blackish brown to black; funicle folded once or twice; aril clavate.
Grows in clayey or sandy loams, in eucalypt open forest, on hillslopes, headlands and behind sand dunes on coast; for further details see Kodela & Tame (1999).
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