Dense, round, spreading shrub 1–3 m high. Branchlets sparsely to densely puberulous to short-pilose or sometimes velutinous with ±straight and patent hairs, sometimes glabrous. New shoots glabrous or white-to cream-hairy. Phyllodes variable, normally slightly asymmetrically oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate (but frequently narrowly so) or obovate to oblanceolate, (0.8–) 1–3 cm long, (4–) 5–12 (–15) mm wide, l: w = 1.5–3.5, obtuse to subacute, grey-green to glaucous, with indumentum similar to branchlets, sometimes glabrous, 1-veined per face; lateral veins not prominent. Inflorescences 1–4-headed racemes; raceme axes 0.5–2 (–3) mm long, hairy, sometimes glabrous; peduncles 5–12 (–20) mm long, slender, hairy, sometimes glabrous; heads globular, 28–36-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals variably united. Pods linear, submoniliform, to 9 cm long, 5–8 (–11) mm wide, firmly chartaceous to coriaceous, dark brown or black, lightly pruinose, glabrous or hairy. Seeds longitudinal, 4–5.5 mm long, subshiny, brown to black, punctate about centre, arillate.
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