Rhizomatous subshrub to 0.5 m high. Branchlets glabrous or puberulous, with hairs antrorsely curved, sometimes tuberculate. Phyllodes whorled, sometimes scattered, straight or recurved in upper half, ±terete to compressed, 5–16 mm long, 0.5–1.2 mm wide, rostellate, often uncinate, glabrous or sparsely antrorsely puberulous, smooth or tuberculate, with a longitudinal groove on each face when dry; veins not evident. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 2–16 mm long, glabrous to sparsely puberulous, often decurved from base in fruit, ebracteate at base; heads globular, 8–20-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods narrowly oblong, shallowly curved, to 25 mm long, 2.5–4 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, finely longitudinally striate, glabrous. Seeds 1–3 per pod, longitudinal, oblong to shortly cylindrical, 4–5.5 mm long; aril convoluted.
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