Silvery spreading tree 3-7 (-12) m high; branches often slightly twisted and spreading ±horizontally. Bark fibrous, grey. Branchlets appressed-puberulous, glabrescent. Phyllodes ascending to erect, filiform, straight to shallowly curved to sinuous, terete, (8-) 10-18 cm long, 0.8-1 mm diam., with curved to uncinate apex, not rigid, silvery appressed-puberulous early but hairs confined to between nerves with age, finely multistriate. Inflorescences 2-or 3-headed racemes; raceme axes 0.5-1.5 mm long; peduncles 5-12 mm long, silvery appressed-puberulous; heads globular, 5 mm diam., 26-28-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free; petals pale yellow or silvery appressed-puberulous. Pods pendulous, moniliform, to 20 cm long, 7-10 mm wide, ±crustaceous, finely longitudinally nerved, hoary when young, ageing glabrescent except between seeds. Seeds longitudinal, compressed-elliptic, 9-12 mm long, dull, dark brown; aril small, pale yellow.
Grows on plains and alluvial flats in shallow loam and sand over limestone, in low chenopodiaceous shrubland and, further inland, in Acacia shrubland.
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