Compact, spreading, rounded or flat-topped, often multi-stemmed, resinous shrub 0.5–1 (–1.5) m high and up to 2 m across. Bark smooth except at extreme base, ±grey. Branchlets terete, resin-ribbed at apices. Phyllodes curved at base to become ascending, ±terete, (1.5–) 2–4.3 cm long, 0.7–1.2 mm wide, glabrous, very obscurely 8-veined; gland 1, obscure, basal. Inflorescences simple, axillary, bright yellow. Heads globular, dense, 7–10 mm diam., 30–45-flowered, resinous. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 1–1.3 mm long, dissected to ⅙–¼ of length, glabrous; corolla 2–2.5 mm long, dissected to c. ⅓ of length, glabrous, viscid; ovary glabrous. Pods rigidly erect, linear-oblanceolate, straight, subterete to compressed, 3.5–5.5 cm long, 4–6 mm wide, woody, yellowish brown to dark brown, longitudinally nerved, glabrous, opening elastically from apex (valves recurved following dehiscence); margins not thickened. Seeds oblique, elliptic, 2.8–4 mm long, ±brown with slightly paler open areole; pleurogram with pale halo; funicle-aril straight, conical.
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