Shrub to 1 m tall. Branchlets glabrous, pubescent or pilose with spreading to ±retrorse lax hairs, ±viscid; internodes often to 3 times as long as phyllodes. Stipules to 2 mm long. Phyllodes (8–) 10–14 per whorl, ascending, slightly flattened, straight or recurved, 5–8 (–14) mm long, glabrous or pilose to scabrid, with impressed nerve on upper surface; mucro c. 0.4 mm long. Peduncles 10–25 mm long, glabrous or pilose. Heads 15–30-flowered. Flowers 5-or 6-merous; calyx 0.6–0.9 mm long, ribbed, glabrous (or lobes ciliate); calyx lobes incurved, linear, 0.2–0.4 mm long, thick; corolla lobes striate, sparsely hispid. Pods sessile, linear, 30–35 mm long, c. 6 mm wide, glabrous; margins slightly thickened. Seeds (not seen mature) longitudinally oblique, c. 3 mm long.
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