Dense shrub or tree to 4 m high. Trunks often pruinose. Branchlets pruinose, glabrous. Phyllodes usually narrowly elliptic, usually 6-10 cm long, 6-20 mm wide, l:w = 3-15, ±acute and uncinate, thin, glaucous, glabrous, usually 2-veined with adaxial vein less pronounced than midrib; lateral veins obscure; gland 2-5 mm above pulvinus, and at base of mucro. Inflorescences 3-9-headed racemes; raceme axes 2-7 cm long, robust, glabrous; peduncles 5-12 mm long, robust, glabrous; heads globular, 7-10 mm diam., to 12 mm when fresh, subdense, 18-20-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united into a ±truncate calyx. Pods ±erect, submoniliform, to 11 cm long, 5-7 mm wide, firmly crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, 5 mm long, dull, black; aril cream but drying yellow-brown.
Grows in sand over limestone in scrub, thicket, mallee, woodland or low forest.
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