Spreading often procumbent multistemmed subshrub 0.2–0.5 m tall. Branchlets usually densely pubescent to hirsute. Stipules 2–4 mm long, slender, frequently spinose. Phyllodes ascending to erect, narrowly oblong, straight or shallowly recurved at apices, infrequently quadrangular and deeply sulcate between the nerves, (5–) 7–22 mm long, 1–4 mm wide, ±asymmetrically narrowed at base, with oblique pungent apex, rigid, green, glabrous or hirsutellous on nerves, 4-nerved in all, 1-nerved per face when flat; pulvinus yellow, slightly dilated at base. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles (6–) 8–14 mm long, glabrous or hirsutellous; heads globular, 15–25-flowered, golden; bracteoles acuminate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free; petals 1-nerved, sometimes sparingly penninerved. Pods narrowly oblong, to 45 mm long, 4–9 mm wide, thickly crustaceous to woody, glabrous or hirsutellous; margins broad, yellow. Seeds transverse, c. 3.7 mm long, turgid, mottled; aril oblique.
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