Tree to 5 (–7) m high. Bark corky, often corrugated or somewhat tessellated, rougher with age. Branchlets with scattered straight hairs c. 0.3 mm long. Stipules on flowering stems, sparse, straight, 0.7–1.5 mm long, to 5 mm on young plants, often wanting on mature plants. Leaves: axis 40–75 mm long (including petiole 5–8 mm), with scattered to moderately dense hairs on the broadly sulcate surface; gland disc-like, situated between the lowest pair of pinnae; pinnae 11–22 pairs, 15–30 mm long; pinnules 20–35 pairs, oblong, 1.6–2.2 mm long, 0.5–0.7 mm wide, thick, veins obscure, glabrous or with a few marginal hairs. Heads globular, 15–30-flowered, cream-coloured; peduncles 25–40 mm long, with scattered long hairs, involucel in upper half. Flowers 5-merous; calyx gamosepalous; corolla 3–3.2 mm long. Pods c. 65 mm long, 10–15 mm wide, described as ‘creamy-coloured’, somewhat pubescent but becoming dark brown or black and glabrous with age. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, c. 10 mm long, c. 9 mm wide; pleurogram prominent, open; areole large, depressed.
Grows in cracking-clay and clay loam soils, sometimes sandy loam, on plains, in open woodland to forest.
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