Shrub to 3 m high, often spreading widely. Branchlets red-brown, commonly ±pruinose, glabrous. Phyllodes variable, narrowly elliptic to oblong-oblanceolate, rarely lanceolate or linear, (6–) 9–15 (–20) cm long and (5–) 7–20 (–40) mm wide, obtuse or acute, coriaceous, thick, green or grey-green, glabrous; midrib and marginal veins prominent; lateral veins normally obscure; glands not prominent, 3 or 4, with lowermost basal. Inflorescences racemose, occasionally some simple; raceme axes commonly 1–3 cm long, stout, minutely hairy; peduncles (1–) 2–7 (–8) mm long, 1–4 mm wide, thick, coarsely longitudinally sulcate when dry, densely and minutely hairy; heads globular, large 8–15 (–17) mm diam. (dry), dense, 50–140-flowered, golden; bracteole laminae ±circular, thick, dark brown, densely white-hairy. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ⅔-united; calyx lobes and petals densely silvery-hairy at apices. Pods linear, to 13 cm long, 4–6 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 4–5 mm long, slightly shiny, dark brown to black; aril clavate.
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