Slender shrub 1–4 m high. Branchlets ±angled, ribbed, pubescent. Phyllodes ascending, mostly narrowly elliptic, straight to slightly incurved, 6.5–15 cm long, 4.5–13 mm wide, acute, mucronulate, coriaceous, glabrous, but puberulous at base and on pulvinus, with numerous distant main veins (commonly 3 slightly more evident than the rest), ±sparingly longitudinally reticulate; gland single, c. 4 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences 1–3-headed racemes, sometimes appearing simple; raceme axes (0.5–) 1–6 (–10) mm long, pubescent; peduncles 7–16 mm long, puberulous; heads globular, 7–9 mm diam., 30–40-flowered, creamy white; bracteoles shortly stipitate, oblanceolate-spathulate. Flowers 5‑merous; sepals ⅔-united. Pods narrowly oblong, raised over seeds alternately on each side, straight, to 8.5 cm long, 6–8 (–9.5) mm wide, coriaceous, puberulous except margins. Seeds longitudinal, broadly oblong-elliptic, 5–5.5 mm long, dull, dark brown; funicle/aril thick, fleshy, in 2 or 3 terminal folds.
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