Subshrub 0.2–0.3 m high. Branchlets terete, pilose to villous-tomentose, scarred by raised phyllode bases with age. Stipules persistent, narrowly triangular to subulate, to 1.5 mm long. Phyllodes ascending to erect, straight to curved, sometimes recurved at apex, terete to compressed, 3–12 mm long, ±1 mm wide, with 6–8 raised, minutely villous veins (the hairs sometimes reduced to papillae), rarely glabrous; gland obscure, on lower half of phyllode. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 4–10 mm long, minutely villous or glabrous; basal bract caducous, cucullate, rostrate, 2–3 mm long; heads globular, 3–4 mm diam., 8–12-flowered, golden; bracteoles spathulate, acuminate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free or irregularly ¼–½-united. Pods linear, undulate, raised over but not constricted between seeds, to 5 cm long, 1.5–4.5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous to firmly chartaceous, pruinose or not, pilose, sometimes glabrescent, or glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, broadly ovate, 2–2.5 mm long, subglossy, mottled dark brown and grey-brown; aril subterminal.
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