Shrub to c. 4 m high, multistemmed, resinous. Bark smooth, grey purplish or brown. Branchlets ± terete, glabrous; ridges yellow resin-crenulated. Phyllodes filiform, terete to ± compressed, 6–15 cm long, 0.7–1.3 mm wide, glabrous, multistriate; veins usually inconspicuous, often with some veins and margins resin-crenulated when dry; gland 1, basal, just above pulvinus. Spikes 0.5–1 cm long, pale yellow to bright yellow. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.8–1 mm long, truncate, thin, dissected irregularly into lobes, glabrous; corolla 1.2–1.4 mm long, dissected to 1/2, glabrous; ovary mealy. Pods linear, raised over and ± constricted between seeds, straight, later curved or coiled, 2.5–5 cm long, 2–3.5 mm wide, chartaceous, scaly when mature. Seeds longitudinal, 2.5–4 mm long, black; areole small, open.
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A shrub or small slender tree. It grows 2-6 m high and spreads 2-4 m across. The leaves (phyllodes) are very long and thin. They are 5-10 cm long by 0.1-0.3 cm across. They are long and thin and round in cross section. They have distinctive lines along them. The flower heads are like rods 1-1.5 cm long. They usually occur in pairs in the angles where leaves join. The flower stalk is sticky. The pods are 2-4 cm long by 0.2-0.3 cm wide. The pods are constricted between the seeds. The pods are flat and coiled. They occur in clusters. The seeds have thin coats and a distinct yellow papery outgrowth (aril).
Eucalyptus woodland, commonly found in rocky loam or clay soils, often associated with watercourses, on rocky slopes in low undulating country, but also recorded from sandy soil on stabilized inland dunes and spinifex plains.
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It occurs on sandy soils. It normally occurs in northern and inland Australia. It is a hardy plant. It cannot tolerate fire. It can grow in arid places.
Common in eucalypt woodland, often with spinifex, in sandy soils.
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