Sprawling straggly rush-like subshrub to 0.4 m tall. Branches terete, striate, green except for the yellow ribs, glabrous. Phyllodes reduced to continuous, thin, horizontally flattened, narrowly oblong to narrowly triangular scales 1.5–4 mm long. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 in axils of scales; peduncles 4–15 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, c. 8 mm diam. (when dry), somewhat loosely 8–12-flowered, bright light golden; buds obovate-apiculate, 2 mm wide. Flowers 4-merous; sepals ½–⅔-united, c. half length of petals; petals flabellate-striate. Pods 4–7 cm long, 8–10 mm wide, stipitate, acuminate, coriaceous-crustaceous, shallowly curved, acutely quadrangular by flat winged margins 3–4 mm wide, glabrous. Seeds presumably oblique, oblong-elliptic, c. 5.5 mm long; aril terminal, conical.
Home