Spreading shrub 0.5–1.3 m tall. Branchlets puberulous, pilose or villous; hairs patent or appressed and sometimes golden on young growth. Phyllodes narrowly oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, (2–) 2.5–4 (6–) cm long, (3–) 4–9 mm wide, obtuse-mucronulate, coriaceous to rigid-coriaceous, ±shortly villous, with many raised main nerves on each face and longitudinally to obliquely anastomosing minor nerves in between; gland to 5 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences (1-or) 2-headed racemes, sometimes simple; raceme axes 0.5–4.5 mm long; peduncles 2–6 (–10) mm long, densely golden-or white-hairy; basal bract persistent; heads globular, 4–6 mm diam., mostly (27–) 35–45 (–47)-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods strongly undulate, to 3 cm long, 6–8 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, villous or pilose. Seeds oblique, broadly ovate, round or oblong-oval, 2.5–3 mm long, glossy, dark brown; aril subapical.
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