Erect to sprawling shrub 1–2 m high. Branchlets terete, usually canescent-villous, sometimes with scattered shorter glandular hairs. Stipules persistent, subulate, partly united, to 6.5 mm long. Phyllodes sessile to subsessile, patent to inclined, inequilaterally ovate to lanceolate, straight, (3–) 5–10 (–15) mm long, 1.5–4.5 mm wide, acuminate-pungent, coriaceous, usually subglabrous to villous, with 3 or 4 distant veins and with few anastomoses; gland often projecting beyond phyllode-margin, 2–5 mm above base. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles (3–) 7.5–14 mm long, usually villous; heads globular, 4–6 mm diam., 60–92-flowered, golden; bracteoles linear to narrowly lanceolate, exserted in buds. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ½-united. Pods linear, raised over and irregularly ± constricted between seeds, curved, to 8.5 cm long, (4–) 5–6.5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, canescent-puberulous with intermixed longer gland-tipped hairs. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic-oblong, 6–6.5 mm long, dull, brown-black; aril terminal.
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