Shrub 0.3–0.6 m high, 1–3.6 m diam., spreading, ±glabrous, resinous. Bark ± smooth, minutely fissured, pale greyish brown. Branchlets angular towards apices, yellowish to red-brown, minutely resin-haired, glabrescent; ridges obscure. Phyllodes to 6 per node, linear, narrowly oblong or very narrowly oblanceolate, straight to shallowly sigmoid, ± terete, 0.4–2.5 cm long, 0.5–1.2 (–3) mm wide, mucronulate, thick, glabrous, multistriate; veins indistinct; gland 1, obscure, basal, to 3 mm above pulvinus. Spikes 0.7–1.5 (–2) cm long, golden. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 1.0–1.4 mm long, dissected to ⅓–⅔, glabrous; corolla 1.6–2.2 mm long, dissected to ⅓–½, glabrous; ovary capped, glabrous, minutely tuberculate. Pods linear-oblanceolate, tapering towards base, flat, 2.5–6.5 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, subwoody, opening elastically from apex; margins prominent. Seeds oblique to longitudinal, narrowly oblong, 3–4.5 mm long, brown; funicle-aril narrowly turbinate.
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