Spreading ±dense shrub 0.3–1.2 m tall. Branchlets tomentulose to densely puberulous (hairs patent to ±appressed). Phyllodes on raised stem-projections, ascending to erect, narrowly oblong to oblong-elliptic, straight, 1–2 (–2.5) cm long, 3–5 mm wide, l: w ratio = (3–) 4–6, obtuse, inconspicuously mucronulate, ±thick and fleshy, glabrous except pulvinus densely puberulous to tomentulose; midrib not prominent; lateral nerves absent or obscure; gland basal, obscure. Inflorescences rudimentary 2-headed racemes with axes less than 0.5 mm long; peduncles 7–22 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 3.5–4.5 mm diam., 17–31-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, sometimes absent. Pods variably undulate to circinnate or irregularly sigmoid, to 2 cm long, 3.5–4 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal to oblique, broadly elliptic, c. 2 mm long, glossy, black; hilum sublateral; aril linear-clavate, ⅔–¾ length of seed, white.
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