Glabrous shrub normally to c. 2 m high. New growth resinous and slightly viscid. Phyllodes inclined to erect, incurved or ±straight and incurved only at base, ±terete, 2–4 cm long, c. 1 mm wide, excentrically mucronulate and often obliquely truncate, commonly uncinate to subuncinate, green, 4-veined; veins ±impressed, brownish and overlaid by a viscid exudate that commonly forms a narrow translucent ridge; gland at base of mucro. Inflorescences simple or comprising short 1-or 2-headed terminal or axillary racemes with axes 1–5 (–10) mm long; peduncles 5–14 mm long; heads globular, densely 20–25-flowered, golden, resinous. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united at base. Pods (slightly immature) narrowly oblong, to 7 cm long, c. 5 mm wide, slightly undulate, resinous. Seeds (slightly immature) longitudinal, oblong-elliptic; aril clavate.
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