Erect rush-like subshrub, 0.2–0.45 m high, few-or several-stemmed from base, sometimes with a few bipinnate leaves persistent near base of stems. Upper stems narrowly winged and resembling Acacia applanata, glabrous. Phyllodes few, sometimes absent, linear to ± narrowly elliptic, (1.6–) 4–10 cm long, 2–6 (–8) mm wide, sometimes with smaller subtending inflorescences, acute to mucronate, green, glabrous; midrib central or excentric; pulvinus 0.5–1 mm long. Inflorescences simple; peduncles 1–4 mm long, glabrous; basal bracts persistent, conspicuous; spikes mostly 1–3 cm long, golden; bracteoles caducous, scarious, acuminate, dark brown, prominent in buds. Flowers mostly 5-merous; sepals c. ½-united or more into an irregularly lobed calyx. Pods linear, to 5 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, crustaceous, glabrous; margins thick. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, c. 2.5 mm long; aril curved or once-folded.
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