Erect or spreading shrub 0.3-0.6 m high. Branches orange to (reddish) brown. Branchlets puberulous with patent to slightly retrorse hairs. Stipules setaceous to narrowly triangular, 2-4 mm long. Phyllodes often crowded, patent to slightly reflexed, narrowly semi-trullate with a prominent gland-angle on adaxial margin near base, 6-11 mm long, 1.5-4 mm wide, acuminate, pungent with a 1.5-2.5 mm long cusp, rigid, olive green, glabrous, sometimes sparsely puberulous; midrib prominent, central; lateral nerves absent. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 1.5-3 mm long, puberulous; heads globular, 4-flowered, golden. Flowers 4-merous; sepals 2/3-2/5-united, with lobes broadly triangular. Pods terete, ±abruptly narrowed at both ends, curved, to 4.5 cm long, c. 3 mm diam., red-brown, striate, minutely puberulous. Seeds longitudinal, shape and size variable, oblong to elliptic, 3.5-4.5 mm long; aril terminal, conical.
Grows in often lateritic sand or loam, in a variety of vegetation, but commonly mallee shrubland or Wandoo (Eucalyptus wandoo) woodland.
Home