Compact to ±open shrub 0.3-0.9 m high. Branchlets glabrous, sometimes resinous and vernicose. Phyllodes crowded, on ±raised stem-projections, erect or ascending, linear, straight or shallowly incurved, 7-17 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, narrowed at base, obliquely mucronate, slightly thickened, glaucous (at least when young), glabrous, 3-nerved in all; midrib immersed and not or scarcely evident; nerve on abaxial margin yellow to brown; adaxial marginal and lateral nerves absent; gland 0.2-1.5 mm above base. Inflorescences rudimentary 1 (or 2)-headed racemes with axes 0.5-1 mm long; peduncles 9-16 mm long, glabrous; basal bract persistent; heads globular, 4.5-5 mm diam., 10-17-flowered, golden; bracteoles absent. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free or united near base. Pods oblong to narrowly oblong, prominently raised over seeds alternately on each side, to 25 mm long, 10-12 mm wide, chartaceous, glabrous. Seeds transverse, broadly elliptic, c. 5 mm long; funicle gradually thickened to once-folded; aril subterminal.
Grows in clay, sandy loam or loamy clay on flats, in open shrub mallee, open dwarf scrub or low heath.
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