Straggly and open or sometimes dense, glabrous, often pruinose shrub normally to c. 3 m high. Stipules usually spinose, sometimes absent at mature nodes. Phyllodes variable, usually elliptic to ±orbicular or obovate, 2.5-6 cm long and 1.5-4 cm wide, sometimes larger, slightly undulate, pungent, blue-grey to grey-green or glaucous, infrequently green, coriaceous, with prominent and ±central midrib, penninerved; minor nerves ultimately anastomosing. Inflorescences racemose, often paniculate at ends of branchlets; raceme axes 3-18 cm long; peduncles normally twinned, 8-21 mm long, often subtended by a reduced secondary phyllode; heads showy, globular, densely 70-80-flowered, bright golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods narrowly oblong, rounded over seeds, shallowly curved to openly once-coiled, to c. 8 cm long, 8-15 mm wide, firmly chartaceous. Seeds transverse to longitudinal, broadly elliptic to ovate, 4-6 mm long, turgid, ±dull, dark brown, scarcely arillate.
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A small prickly shrub or tree. It grows up to 3-5 m high. It is a straggly plant. The branches are slightly flattened and covered with a bluish bloom. The leaves (phyllodes) are like those of a pear tree. They are 5-8 cm long and 13-6 cm wide. They are oval, leathery and with a sharp tip. They have spines at the base of the leaves. The flower heads are balls. They are dense and golden yellow. They occur as clusters on stalks up to 15 cm long. The pods are 4-8 cm long by 0.8-1.6 cm wide. They are flat, curved and thickened at the edges.
Found in sand or loamy soils, often along watercourses, readily colonizing disturbed sites. It typically favours clay soils with a pebble surface strew and also rocky hill slopes with very stone pediments.
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It is a tropical plant. It occurs on rocky outcrops in northern Australia. It suits tropical regions and inland areas with a hot climate. It needs a well drained soil and sunny position.
Grows in sand or loam, often along watercourses; readily colonises disturbed sites.
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