Shrub or tree 2–5 (–6) m high, gnarled; main branches rather contorted and ±spreading horizontally. Branchlets ±glabrous. New shoots densely appressed hairy, with hairs golden but soon aging white. Phyllodes erect, narrowly linear to linear-oblanceolate or linear-elliptic, acute or short-acuminate, straight to shallowly incurved, 7–13 cm long, (2–) 3–5 (–7) mm wide, subrigid, commonly coarsely pungent, ±glabrous, pale green to subglaucous, with numerous, indistinct, parallel veins; glands 3 or 4; lowermost gland (0–) 2–10 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences mostly simple; peduncles 2–7 mm long, glabrous; spikes 10–20 mm long, loosely flowered; receptacle glabrous. Flowers 4-merous; sepals ¼ or less than the length of the petals, united, glabrous. Pods moniliform, curved to irregularly sigmoid or twisted, (5–) 6–8 (–13) cm long, 5–7 mm wide, thinly crustaceous or (just prior to maturity) ±subwoody, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic to widely elliptic or ±depressed-globose, (4–) 6–7 mm long, brown to ±blackish; funicle/aril short.
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