Shrub 2–5.5 m high. Bark smooth or subfibrous, grey. Branchlets terete, dark red-brown, resinous, at first densely covered with resin hairs towards apices. Phyllodes linear-elliptic, very narrowly or narrowly elliptic, flat, 5.3–19.5 cm long, mostly 3–16 mm wide, coriaceous, with numerous stomata, glabrous, with ±prominent midvein; minor veins 2–4 per mm, conspicuous, longitudinal, non-anastomosing; gland 1, minute, basal. Spikes 1.4–3 cm long, golden. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.5–0.8 mm long, shallowly lobed, with white-hyaline hairs on tube and minute reddish hairs on lobes; corolla 1.4–1.8 mm long, dissected for 1/3–1/2. Pods linear, ±straight-sided to slightly constricted between and raised over seeds, 2.5–8 cm long, 3–4.5 mm wide, chartaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic-oblong, 3.8-4 mm long, blackish brown; areole open.
Grows in heath or eucalypt forest, in sandy gravelly soil amongst boulders, on granite, rhyolite and sandstone.
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