Aromatic, rounded shrub 1–3 m high. Branchlets glabrous, resinous, with resin encrusting entire surface or confined to ribs. Phyllodes ascending to erect, often ± slender, straight to shallowly curved, terete to subterete, mostly 3–8 cm long, 0.5–1 mm diam., innocuous with a straight or shortly curved to uncinate tip, glabrous, with ± 16 plane close veins. Inflorescences simple; peduncles 4–8 mm long, glabrous or sometimes appressed-puberulous, resinous; heads globular, 3.5–4 mm diam., 18–37-flowered, golden, resinous. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods linear, slightly constricted between and slightly raised over seeds, to 7 cm long, 2–3.5 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, glabrous, resinous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic, c. 3.2 mm long, glossy, mottled; aril white.
Grows in clay, loam and sand on flats, in low open woodland, open scrub, tall shrubland, tall open shrubland and open heath.
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