Normally a multistemmed shrub 1.5–4 m high, with a mallee habit, sometimes a tree to 7 m high. Branchlets angled at extremities, often lightly pruinose, with indumentum usually of moderate to dense appressed straight hairs. Phyllodes patent to erect, sometimes deflexed, linear to narrowly elliptic, 4–10 cm long, usually 3–6 mm wide, thin, glaucous to subglaucous, with indumentum similar to branchlets but sparser, sometimes ±glabrous, 1‑veined; lateral veins obscure; gland not exserted, 3–20 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences 6–12-headed racemes, prolific in upper axils; raceme axes normally 1–4 cm long, with indumentum as on branchlets; peduncles (2–) 3–5 mm long, with indumentum as on branchlets; heads globular, 12–20-flowered, golden; bracteole laminae ±circular, brown, white-fimbriolate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united almost to their apices; ovary densely pubescent. Pods to 8 cm long, (6–) 7–10 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, black, pruinose, glabrous, dehiscing unilaterally. Seeds longitudinal, ±oblong, 5–6 mm long, slightly shiny, black; aril clavate.
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