Obconic shrub 0.7–1.5 m high. Bark smooth, light grey. Branchlets slightly ribbed, sparsely appressed-puberulous. Phyllodes ascending to erect, narrowly oblanceolate to elliptic-oblanceolate, straight to slightly curved, 1.5–2.5 cm long, 2.5–4 mm wide, l: w ratio = 3.5–7, with an acute or subobtuse mucronate sharply to coarsely pungent apex, rigid, glabrous, with numerous closely parallel ± raised veins paler than intervein spaces; stomata distinct, raised; gland 1, basal. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles 4–7 mm long, ± appressed-puberulous or glabrous; heads globular, 3–3.5 mm diam., 18–25-flowered, golden; bracteoles obovate to ± spathulate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ± free. Pods linear, not constricted between seeds, strongly curved to openly 1–1½-coiled, to 6 cm long, c. 3 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, not seen.
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