Glabrous multistemmed shrub to 0.5 m tall, commonly forming prostrate mats. Phyllodes ascending, obovate to oblong-oblanceolate, sometimes narrowly oblong, horizontally flattened to planoconvex, 4–10 mm long, 1.3–3 mm wide, obtuse, thick and fleshy, coarsely wrinkled (dry), 1-nerved on lower surface, nerveless on upper surface; gland on upper surface above middle of phyllode, commonly absent. Inflorescences rudimentary 2-headed racemes with axes to 0.5 mm long; peduncles 2–8 mm long; basal bracts caducous, rostriform, 1.5–2.5 mm long; heads globular, ±3 mm diam., 7–10-flowered, golden; bracteole hairs relatively long, glistening white. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods oblong, sigmoid to circinately curved (sometimes into a complete circle), to 1.5 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, crustaceous. Seeds oblique, pyriform, 2–2.5 mm long, shiny, light grey; aril clavate, more than half seed length.
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