Shrub or small tree, prostrate, glabrous. Branchlets slender, red-brown, resinous when young. Phyllodes linear-elliptic, shallowly recurved, 4–8.5 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, ± acute with callus tip, resinous when young, with 7–14 subdistant nerves per face; midnerve the most conspicuous; glands 1–3, not prominent, with lowermost 0–1 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 6–8 mm long, resinous; spikes 10–20 mm long, somewhat interrupted. Flowers 5-merous, resinous; sepals united to about the middle; calyx cupular. Pods (not seen, fide protologue) narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, narrowed at base, 4.5 cm long, woody, obscurely longitudinally nerved, resinous, opening elastically from apex; margins thick. Seed not seen.
Habit and habitat data are scanty, but it has been recorded as a small tree occurring in heath on a hillside overlooking the beach, and as a prostrate shrub 30 cm tall growing in wind-shorn scrub at 42 m alt.
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