Shrub 0.3–0.6 m tall. Branchlets sparsely to densely puberulous to shortly pilose. Phyllodes inequilateral, obtriangular to obdeltate with a prominent gland-bearing angle on adaxial margin, with adaxial proximal margin ±contiguous with branchlet, 3–7 mm long and 3–8 mm wide (may reach 15 mm long and wide on old stems), pungent, glabrous or hairy; midrib near abaxial margin, with a minor nerve extending from base towards the gland. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 3–8 mm long, glabrous to sparsely hairy; heads globular, 2-flowered, white to cream; buds abruptly acute. Flowers 4-merous; sepals c. ¾-united, with broadly triangular lobes; petals glabrous, ±obscurely 3–7-nerved at apices. Pods narrowly oblong, curved, to 5.5 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, coriaceous-crustaceous, glabrous; margins thick. Seeds longitudinal, ±oblong, 3–3.5 mm long, glossy, greyish brown; aril terminal.
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