Harsh intricate sprawling or compact subshrub to 0.4 m tall. Branchlets variably scabridulous, green, finely yellow-ribbed. Stipules spinose, 2 mm long, straight, thickened at base. Phyllodes distant, sessile, normally patent, oblong to narrowly oblong, flat but thick, sometimes drying ±quadrangular, 4–10 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, pungent, rigid, with colour and indumentum as on branchlets, 5-nerved, with the 2-nerved adaxial margin 0.5–0.8 mm wide; midrib prominently raised when dry. Inflorescences rudimentary 2-headed racemes with axes greater than 0.5 mm long; peduncles 1.5–3 mm long, glabrous, recurved in fruit; heads globular, small, 7-or 8-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods narrowly oblong, variably curved, to 5 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous to ±crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds oblique, ±irregularly ovate-elliptic, 2.5–3 mm long, somewhat shiny, dark brown; aril half or more the length of the seed.
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