Erect to sprawling shrub 0.5–3 m high. Branchlets ribbed, glabrous or sparsely appressed-puberulous with straight hairs. Stipules present only on young new shoots. Phyllodes sessile, patent to ascending, inequilateral basally, subulate-linear, narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, straight to recurved, (1.5–) 2–5 (–6) cm long, (1.5–) 2–10 (–15) mm wide, pungent, thinly coriaceous to subrigid, glabrous or subglabrous, with 3 or 4 distant plane to slightly raised main veins; glands 1–3, with lowermost 5–20 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, 1–3 per axil; peduncles 3.5–8 (–12) mm long, rather stout, glabrous; heads globular, 4–5 mm diam., 30–50-flowered, deep golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods pendent, linear, ±raised over seeds, straight, to 4.5 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, coriaceous, appressed-puberulous, with longitudinal paler midline. Seeds longitudinal, oval, 3 mm long, dull, mottled; aril subapical, helmet-shaped.
The coastal populations grow on beach sands and sand dunes, often on calcareous substrates, in heath and scrub.
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