Spreading shrub 1-2 m high. Branchlets apically angled and resinous, not viscid, glabrous. Phyllodes linear-to oblong-elliptic, usually 3-7 cm long, 4-7 mm wide, obtuse to acute, apiculate, coriaceous, glabrous, resinous when young, with 1 or 2 main nerves arising from pulvinus and a number of parallel distant ±less prominent and sparingly anastomosing secondary nerves in between; gland to 2 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences 1-or 2-headed racemes; raceme axes 1-7 mm long; peduncles usually 5-9 mm long, glabrous or with scattered glandular papillae; heads globular to short-obloid, 4-6 mm diam., 25-32-flowered, lemon-yellow. Flowers 4-merous; sepals 1/3-3/4-united, glandular-ciliolate. Pods linear, raised over seeds, straight to shallowly curved, to 7.5 cm long, 2.5-3.5 mm wide, thin-coriaceous, glabrous, ±resinous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic-oblong, 4-4.5 mm long, subglossy, brown; aril apical.
Usually occurs in Eucalyptus low woodland, in sandy and skeletal soils on spongolite breakaways, and often along creeks and rivers.
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