Shrub 2–6 m tall, dense, bushy, glabrous. Bark longitudinally fissured at base of main trunks, grey or dark red-brown. Branches non-pruinose; young tips very resinous. Phyllodes ascending to erect, not lax or pendulous, (5–) 7–16 cm long, 3–12 mm wide, with markedly recurved apex, thinly coriaceous, green, obscurely multistriate, with prominent midnerve and 2 subprominent nerves; gland minute, basal; pulvinus 1.5–3 mm long. Peduncles 4–10 mm long, glabrous. Spikes on short axillary branchlets, 1–2.5 cm long, dense, golden. Flowers 5-merous; calyx united, costate or ±5-sided, with ribs densely hairy; petals free, glabrous. Pods linear, slightly raised over seeds, to 10 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, coriaceous to thinly crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds to 5 mm long; areole closed or with narrow opening.
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