Openly branched, multistemmed, glabrous shrub 2–3 m high. Bark grey on main stems, light bronze on upper branches, smooth. Branchlets yellowish to pale orange-brown or bronze. Stipules spinose, normally absent or infrequent on mature plants, 1.5–3 (–4) mm long. Phyllodes linear to narrowly oblong or linear-oblanceolate, 15–25 (–35) mm long, (1–) 2–3 (–4) mm wide, l: w = (5–) 6–10 (–14), bright green, thick and fleshy (breaking with a clean snap when fresh), wrinkled when dry; midrib obscure or not evident; gland ±basal, not prominent, 0.4–0.5 mm long. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil, initiated synchronously with phyllodes on new shoots; peduncles (8–) 10–17 mm long; heads globular, 40–60-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, linear-spathulate. Pods oblong to narrowly oblong, flat but rounded over seeds along midline, (1.5–) 2.5–4 (–6) cm long, 6–8 (–9) mm wide, chartaceous. Seeds transverse, oblong to elliptic, ovate or round, 3–4 mm long, ±dull, black or sometimes obscurely mottled dark brown; funicle short, thick; aril small.
Grows in sand or loam over granite, laterite or quartz, in spinifex grassland, sometimes along drainage lines.
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