Shrub or tree to 5 m high, spreading, resinous. Bark 'Minni Ritchi', red or maroon. Branchlets angular towards apices, red-brown or rusty-orange, puberulous to almost glabrous between faint longitudinal ± crenulate ridges. Phyllodes linear, very narrowly elliptic or very narrowly oblanceolate, flat, straight or falcate, (1.5–) 2.5–10 cm long, 2–8 (–13) mm wide, obtuse and mucronulate, sometimes coarsely pungent, ± rigid, coriaceous, puberulous between veins, rarely glabrous, finely multistriate; minor veins obscure, 8 or 9 per mm; midvein sometimes slightly broader; gland 1, ± obscure, basal. Globular heads to cylindrical spikes 6–25 mm long. Flowers 5-or 6-merous; calyx 0.7–1.4 mm long, dissected to ⅙–⅓, papillose towards apex, with tube tomentulose, sometimes fimbriate; corolla 1.5–2.5 mm long, dissected to ¼–⅓, glabrous; ovary papillose. Pods linear to cultrate, ± flat, 1.5–9 cm long, 2–6 (–7) mm wide, thin to cartilaginous, papillose. Seeds ±longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, 2–4.5 mm long, brown or black, often mottled; areole open, often yellowish.
Grows in drier areas, in red sandy soils or on rocky ground, often on laterite, quartzite or granite, in gullies along creeks, on plains, sand hills, mesas or scree slopes, in scrub heath, Casuarina scrub or frequently associated with spinifex.
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