Description ⁴

The erect slender and open shrub typically grows to a height of 1 to 3 metres (3 to 10 ft). The prominently yellow-ribbed branchlets have pungent and hardened stipules with a length of 2 to 8 millimetres (0.079 to 0.315 in). The thin evergreen phyllodes have an obliquely lanceolate to ovate shape and are usually 5 to 11 centimetres (2.0 to 4.3 in) in length with a width of 1 to 4 cm (0.39 to 1.57 in). They are narrowed at base and have two to four prominent longitudinal nerves on the face. It blooms from May to October and produces cream-yellow flowers. The inflorescences occur as two to five headed racemes, usually with two on each node. The flower heads have a spherical shape and contain 8 to 12 loosely bunched pale yellow or white flowers. After flowering black sub-woody seed pods with a twisted narrowly linear shape that are around 14 cm (5.5 in) in length and 2 to 4 mm (0.079 to 0.157 in) wide. Each pod contains severalglossy dark brown seeds with an oblong to elliptic shape and a length of 3 to 4 mm (0.118 to 0.157 in).

The shrub is dieback resistant.

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More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Atlas of Living Australia
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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