Shrub 1.5–3 m high. Branchlets glabrous, hirtellous or pilose and/or puberulous. Stipules 1–3 mm long, ±spinescent with age but often only indurate bases persistent. Phyllodes occasionally fasciculate in nodose clusters, variably shaped, commonly dimidiately cuneate or oblong-cuneate, with lower margin ±straight and upper margin rounded or obtusely angled, mostly 8–25 mm long and 2–6 mm wide, with a slender excentric ±pungent mucro 0.5–1 mm long, glabrous; midrib central or situated towards lower margin. Inflorescences simple or rudimentary racemes; peduncles 1–6 per axil, 5–20 mm long, glabrous or hirtellous, with a single bract often present near or above middle; heads ±globular, 3.5–4.5 mm diam., 23–26-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ¾–⅔-united, ¼–⅓ length of petals. Pods strongly curved to loosely coiled, to 5 cm long, 4.5–5.5 mm wide, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to slightly elliptic, 4–5 mm long, dull, dark brown; aril terminal, cream.
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