Shrub or tree to 3 m high, silvery-sericeous. Bark smooth, grey to brown. Branchlets 2-or 3-angled particularly towards apex, bearing dense silky hairs. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to elliptic, flat, subfalcate, 4–8 cm long, 15–35 mm wide, coriaceous, with 3–6 prominent longitudinal veins tending to become confluent with ventral margin proximally; minor veins obscure with few anastomoses; gland 1, basal, reniform, tomentose. Spikes solitary, 1–2.5 cm long, pale yellow. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 1–1.5 mm long, dissected to about ⅗ of its length, with lobes densely pubescent; corolla 1.5–2 mm long, dissected to ½–¾ of its length, pubescent; ovary densely villous. Pods linear-oblanceolate, flat, 6–8.5 cm long, woody, silvery-velvety to sericeous, opening elastically from apex. Seeds oblique, oblong-elliptic, 4–6.5 mm long, brown; funicle-aril turbinate.
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