Erect to spreading shrub 0.4–2.5 m high; branchlets terete, densely hairy with usually long whitish spreading crisped hairs.
Phyllodes irregularly clustered, narrowly elliptic to ? linear, straight or recurved, 0.5–1.3 cm long, 0.6–1.4 mm wide, green or subglaucous, ? sparsely hairy especially on lower edge with scattered whitish crisped hairs, longitudinally wrinkled when dry, veins obscure or not evident, apex acute to short-acuminate with a mucro; 1 inconspicuous gland at base; pulvinus to 1 mm long.
Inflorescences 1 in axil of phyllodes; peduncles 6–16 mm long, hairy; heads globose, 32–46-flowered, 8–10 mm diam., bright yellow.
Pods ? straight, ? flat, mostly ? straight-sided and often constricted between some seeds, 1.5–6 cm long, mostly 7–10.5 mm wide, thinly leathery, glabrous, pruinose; seeds transverse to oblique; funicle filiform.
Distribution
Occurs in the Gibraltar Range and Nymboida National Park.
Habitat and ecology
- Growing in woodlands, dry open forests and rock outcrop shrublands on granite.
Regional distribution and habitat
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