Obconic shrub or tree 3–6 (–7) m high, main stems and upper branches slightly crooked, crowns greyish green with a silvery sheen. Branchlets resin-ribbed at extremities, sericeous between ribs. Phyllodes mostly erect, flat, the apices acute and curved to uncinate, straight to shallowly curved or sometimes shallowly sigmoid, narrowly linear to linear elliptic or linear oblanceolate, narrowed at base, 5–15 (–17) cm long, (1–) 2.5–5 (–6) mm wide, curved to uncinate, not rigid, minutely sericeous mostly between the veins, mid-green to dark grey-green, often drying darkish green tinged yellowish brown, resinous with a slight unpleasant musky odour; with numerous, relatively broad (0.1–0.2 mm wide), parallel, longitudinal nerves. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 4–6 (–12) mm long, ±glabrous; heads commonly obloid, light golden. Flowers 5-merous, sepals free or very shortly united at base. Pods pendulous, linear, straight to shallowly curved, (4–) 6–12 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, ±flat, mostly not constricted between seed, sericeous between the few, ±prominent, sparingly anastomosing longitudinal veins. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to narrowly oblong, 4–4.5 mm long, mid-brown; aril terminal.
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