Dense shrub 0.3–1 m tall. Branchlets finely striate-ribbed, puberulous or appressed-puberulous. Stipules linear-triangular, 1.5–4 mm long. Phyllodes verticillate, inclined to ascending, commonly shallowly incurved, pentagonal to compressed, 1–3 (–4) cm long, 0.8–1.5 (–2) mm wide, with oblique pungent apex, rather rigid, green, normally glabrous, 5-nerved, deeply sulcate between nerves when dry. Inflorescences simple; peduncles 7–13 mm long, glabrous to puberulous; heads globular, 15–25-flowered, cream to pale yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods ±terete, to 5 cm long, 2.5–3.5 mm wide, acuminate, thinly crustaceous-coriaceous, curved (especially upon dehiscence), red-brown, coarsely striate, minutely appressed-puberulous to ±glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 4–5 mm long, light greyish brown; aril terminal, conical.
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