Erect shrub or tree 1.5–7 (–10) m high, not fragrant. Branchlets resin-ribbed, hoary around phyllode bases. Phyllodes normally narrowly oblong-elliptic to narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, straight to shallowly recurved, sometimes shallowly incurved, (2–) 2.5–6.5 (–7.5) cm long, (2–) 3–6 (–10) mm wide, acute or sometimes obtuse, excentrically mucronate to subuncinate or uncinate, mid-to dark-green, glabrous; with (2–) 3–8 (–9) distant, prominent veins, anastomoses rare. Inflorescences (1–) 2–4 (–6)-headed racemes; raceme axes (1–) 2–8 mm long; peduncles (2–) 3–8 mm long, appressed-puberulous; heads globular or slightly obloid, 4–5 mm diam. (dry), densely c. 20-flowered, golden; buds resinous. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, ⅔–¾ length of petals, narrowly oblong, narrowed towards base. Pods linear, straight to shallowly curved, 2–6.5 cm long, 2.5–3.5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 3.5–4.5 mm long, ±shiny, dark brown to ±black, aril yellow-brown or brown (dry).
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