Open broom-like shrub to 0.6 m tall. Branches terete, striate, green except for the prominent yellow ribs, mostly glabrous. Stipules narrowly triangular to narrowly oblong, 1.5–3 mm long. Phyllodes few and distant, continuous with branches, rudimentary and commonly comprising minute stipule-like appendages 0.5–1 mm long, sometimes expanded to subterete to compressed mucronate phyllodes 1–2 mm long. Inflorescences simple, mostly 1 per axil; peduncles 2–5 mm long, ±appressed tomentose-pubescent; heads globular, 8 mm diam., subdensely 13–14-flowered; bracteoles tomentose; buds obovate-apiculate. Flowers mostly 5-merous; sepals free to c. ¼-united, oblong, with tomentose margins; petals flabellate-striate. Pods linear, curved, to 10 cm long, c. 4 mm wide, acuminate, crustaceous to subwoody, ±quadrangular by prominent flat or shallowly convex margins 2 mm wide, glabrous or appressed-puberulous. Seeds (slightly immature) longitudinal, oblong, c. 5 mm long; aril terminal, conical.
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