Spreading shrub 2–3 m high; occasionally tree to 6 m high. Branchlets sericeous between the yellow ribs. Phyllodes straight to shallowly incurved, terete, rarely flat, 3–14 cm long, 0.8–1 mm diam., to 2.5 mm wide when flat, innocuous or ±coarsely pungent with a straight or curved point, coriaceous to subrigid, grey-green, multistriate with yellowish veins (some appearing more prominent than others), appressed-puberulous or sometimes glabrous between the veins; gland basal. Inflorescences simple, (1–) 2 (–4) per axil; peduncles 2–6 mm long, appressed-puberulous; basal bract persistent; heads globular, 20–33-flowered, golden, ±resinous. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free to 1/2-united. Pods submoniliform, curved, 3.5–10 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, ±appressed puberulous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 3–4.5 mm long, glossy, pale brown; aril apical, conical.
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A spreading shrub. It grows 2-3 m tall. The leaflets are 3-14 cm long. There are 2 flowering groups in the axils of leaves with 20-33 flowers. They are golden coloured. The pods are curved and 4-10 cm long by 2-3 mm wide. The seeds are narrowly oval and 3-4.5 mm long. They are shiny and brown.
Commonly found in sandy soils but also in red and shaly soils, mostly in mallee scrub. Grows in mallee and woodland in red earths, and occasionally in sandy and shaley soils.
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Commonly in sandy soils but also in red and shaly soils, mostly in mallee scrub.
It is a warm temperate plant.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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