Bushy shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly linear, normally shallowly incurved, 4–9 cm long, usually 1.5-3 mm wide, narrowed at base, not rigid, glaucous and inclined to ascending, often green or subglaucous and patent at ends of flowering branchlets, glabrous; midrib not prominent; lateral veins absent; gland 7–27 mm above pulvinus, often absent. Inflorescences racemose; racemes usually 1–3 cm long, glabrous, normally drying dark reddish brown; peduncles 2–3 mm long, rather stout, glabrous, sometimes appressed-puberulous, drying dark reddish brown to blackish; heads globular, subdensely 15–20-flowered, bright golden; bracteole laminae ±circular, dark brown to blackish, white-fimbriolate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. ⅚-united. Pods normally ±moniliform, to 9 cm long, 3–3.5 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to somewhat crustaceous, black, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 3.5–4 mm long, somewhat shiny, black; aril clavate.
In the Bendigo 'Whipstick', it grows in stony gravel or clay loam, in open Eucalyptus forest and mallee open scrub.
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