Shrub 0.5–3 m high. Branchlets angular-ribbed at extremities, variably white-puberulous with red-brown to black resin-hairs intermixed. Phyllodes ascending, narrowly elliptic, straight to ±incurved, mostly 5–9 cm long, 4–15 mm wide, acute or obtuse, coarsely pungent or innocuous, coriaceous, glabrous or subglabrous except margins sometimes ± appressed-hairy, with black resin-hairs often persistent on faces, with 3 main veins and longitudinally anastomosing minor veins between them; gland 1–4 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences mostly 2–6-headed racemes; raceme axes to 1 cm long; peduncles 3–10 mm long, densely puberulous; heads globular, 6–9 mm diam., 30–40-flowered, golden; bracteoles linear-spathulate, with laminae rounded or minutely apiculate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals usually ± free. Pods linear, straight, to ± 7.5 cm long, c. 6 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, densely white-villous. Seeds longitudinal, c. 4.5 mm long, ±3 mm wide; aril terminal.
Grows in understorey in eucalypt woodland in sandy, gravelly and loam soils on granite hills, occasionally in heathland.
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