Prostrate intricate shrub forming mats to 2 m across. Branchlet ribs muriculate-scabridulous. New shoots red. Stipules spinose, recurved, 2.5–4 mm long, brittle with sometimes only bases persisting. Phyllodes dimidiately elliptic to narrowly elliptic or obovate to oblanceolate, 10–25 mm long, 5–10 mm wide, slightly undulate, pungent with slender cusp, green or subglaucous, glabrous or subglabrous except margins muriculate-scabridulous; midrib near abaxial margin; lateral veins few and obscure. Inflorescences rudimentary, normally 1-headed racemes with axes 0.5–1 mm long which sometimes grow out; peduncles 6–17 mm long, sometimes red, glabrous or finely and minutely hirsutellous with patent or appressed hairs; bract sometimes present above middle; heads globular or slightly obloid, normally 27–39-flowered, light golden to mid-golden; buds red. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 0.7–1 mm long, c. ½ length of petals, free. Pods and seeds not seen.
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