Shrub 1-3 m high. Branchlets glabrous except tomentulose in phyllode axils. Phyllodes erect, straight to slightly curved, terete, 6-22 cm long, 1-2 mm diam., pungent, rigid, green to subglaucous, glabrous, indistinctly striate; pulvinus subsmooth, orange, slightly flared basally. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles 1.5-4 mm long, ± puberulous; spikes 7-26 mm long, to 7 mm diam., moderately densely flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 3/4-5/6-united, with broadly triangular lobes. Pods linear, raised over and constricted between seeds, to 12 cm long, 4-6 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic, 3.5-4 mm long, glossy, dark brown, paler around areole; aril yellow.
Grows mostly on plains in sand, gravelly sand and loam, in heath, Acacia scrub and shrubland and low woodland.
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