Bushy spreading shrub to c. 3 m high. Branchlets angled at extremities, glabrous. Phyllodes sometimes continuous with branchlets, normally elliptic to oblanceolate, mostly 2.5–6.5 cm long and 8–30 mm wide, obtuse or sometimes retuse, coriaceous, glaucous, sometimes pale green, glabrous; midrib and marginal veins prominent; lateral veins often obscure; pulvinus distinct or poorly developed. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil, initiated synchronously with phyllodes on new shoots; peduncles (6–) 10–26 mm long, stout, glabrous; heads globular, densely 50–130-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods narrowly oblong, straight-edged or slightly constricted between seeds, normally to 6 cm long, 10–15 mm wide, firmly crustaceous to woody, pruinose at least when young, glabrous. Seeds (few seen) transverse, oblong to elliptic, 4.5–6 mm long, ± dull, variable in colour, c. ½ encircled by red-brown funicle.
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