Tree to c. 3 m high; crown dense and silvery green. Bark fissured, grey. Branchlets slightly ribbed, appressed-puberulous towards extremities, glabrescent. Phyllodes erect, straight to slightly curved, terete to subterete, 8–12 cm long, 1–1.5 mm diam., innocuous to coarsely pungent, coriaceous, appressed-puberulous, typically glabrescent, striate by numerous closely parallel fine veins. Inflorescences 1–4-headed racemes; raceme axes 0.5–6 mm long; peduncles 4–8 mm long, white or pale yellow appressed-puberulous; heads globular, 4.5–5 mm diam., 35–40-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, together with petals and bracteoles golden appressed-puberulous. Pods (old valves) constricted between and somewhat raised over seeds, straight, c. 6.5 cm long, 5–5.5 mm wide, chartaceous, appressed-puberulous. Seeds not seen.
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