Tree to 6 m high, obconical, ± resinous, with 1–3 trunks. Juvenile plants sometimes conifer-like. Bark longitudinally fissured on trunks, smooth on branches, grey. Branchlets terete, hoary towards apices. Young shoots pale citron-sericeous. Phyllodes linear, flat, curved, 11–32 cm long, 2–6 mm wide, finely acuminate, coriaceous, hoary when young (later only between nerves), finely multistriate, sometimes 3 veins more prominent; gland obscure, basal. Peduncles 10–20 mm long, resinous-strigillose. Spikes single, axillary, 2–4 cm long, 6–8 mm wide, dense, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ± free, sparsely ciliolate. Pods linear-terete, to 14 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, slightly chartaceous to ± crustaceous, glabrous to sparsely hoary. Seeds longitudinal, 5–5.5 mm long, grey-brown or brown.
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