Sprawling shrub mostly 0.3–0.7 m tall. Branchlets cobwebby-tomentulose with hairs embedded in resin, superficially glabrous. Stipules persistent, narrowly triangular to subulate, to 2.2 mm long. Phyllodes mostly patent to ascending, single or clustered in groups of 2 or 3 (–4) per node, linear, straight, flat to subterete, 1–3.5 cm long, 1–1.8 mm wide, pungent, rigid to subrigid, cobwebby-tomentulose between nerves with indumentum obscured by resin, 8-nerved in all, with 3 distant ±raised nerves per face when flat. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles 7–12 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 3.5–5 mm diam., (9–) 12–18-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, not constricted between seeds, shallowly to moderately curved, biconvex, to 4.5 cm long, 3–3.5 mm wide, coriaceous to subwoody, very finely longitudinally nerved, red-brown to dark brown, minutely puberulous or glabrous, resinous; margins nerved. Seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic, c. 2.5 mm long, dull, mottled brown and brownish grey; aril clavate.
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