Spreading shrub 0.3–2 m high. Branchlets terete, slightly ribbed, ±densely puberulous to pubescent with straight spreading hairs. Stipules persistent, acicular, 1.5–2.3 mm long. Phyllodes sessile, patent, widely elliptic to oblong, inequilateral, 3.5–9 mm long, 1.5–5 mm wide, pungent, rigid; main veins 3 or 4, distant, raised, sparsely to densely hairy or glabrous; gland on upper margin, 1.5–3.5 (–6) mm from base. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 5–15 mm long, normally glabrous; heads usually globular, 4–4.5 mm diam., 25–36-flowered, yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, raised over seeds, straight, to 4.5 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, coriaceous, with indumentum usually as on branchlets, normally with a faint light-coloured longitudinal midline on each valve. Seeds longitudinal, broadly oval to subcircular, turgid, ±3 mm long, mottled, brown; aril subapical to lateral, helmet-shaped.
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