Prostrate shrub 0.25–0.4 m high. Branchlets terete, densely hirsutellous with short, straight, patent to slightly retrorse hairs. Stipules semi-persistent, triangular to subulate, to 1 mm long. Phyllodes ± sessile, patent to reflexed, straight to shallowly recurved, subterete to flat, 7–22 mm long, 0.8–1.2 mm diam., cuspidate-pungent with brown tip, rigid, glabrous, 7-or 8-veined in all, 3-veined per face when flat; gland 0.5–3 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 4–8.5 mm long, glabrous to ± puberulous; heads globular, 4–6 mm diam., 9–20-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, undulate, strongly raised and subfleshy over seeds, to 3 cm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to broadly elliptic-oblong, c. 2.5 mm long, glossy, black; aril subapical, galeiform.
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