Bushy, spreading shrub, usually to 1.5 m high; branchlets with appressed, minute hairs and scurfy between the prominent resin-ribs. Phyllodes linear to narrowly linear, normally kinked or bent upwards a few mm above the base (at the level of the gland), 1–2 cm long, 0.7–2.5 mm wide, dull green to grey-green, glabrous, sometimes glutinous, often slightly dilated at apex, obtuse; midrib markedly raised, very close to adaxial margin and often contiguous with it towards apex. Peduncles mostly 2 per axil, 2–4 mm long, resinous, hoary, basal bract persistent; heads globular, 3–10-flowered, pale yellow or lemon-yellow, resinous in buda. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united in basal half. Pods narrowly linear, to 10 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, curved, thinly coriaceous, brown; seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, 4–5 mm long, shiny, brown, aril terminal. Flowers Jun.–Oct.
Wim, VVP, VRiv, GipP, Gold, CVU, NIS. Also Qld, NSW. Localised but locally not uncommon, extending from north-central Victoria (Bendigo Whipstick, Whroo-Rushworth Forest) to the north-east (Benalla, Wangaratta areas). Mostly on shallow and rocky soils in open-forest or mallee scrub.
