Shrub 1.5–3 m high. Branchlets glandular-puberulous with intermixed longer hairs. Stipules persistent, subulate, partly united, 1.5–4 mm long, upcurved. Phyllodes imbricate, subsessile, patent to ascending, inequilaterally cuneate, elliptic, ovate, triangular or broadly obdeltate with gland-bearing angle on upper margin, 6–20 mm long, (2–) 4–7 mm wide, ± mucronate-pungent, ± coriaceous, glabrous or ±glandular-puberulous, with 3 or 4 distant slightly raised main nerves and occasionally anastomosing secondary nerves; gland 1, rarely projecting beyond margin. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles (3–) 6–25 mm long, glandular-puberulous; heads globular, 5–6 mm diam., 56–73-flowered, dark golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ⅓–½-united. Pods oblong, slightly raised over seeds, straight, to 4.2 cm long, (8–) 10–12 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, obliquely reticulate-nerved. Seeds ±obliquely transverse, c. 5 mm long, dull, dark brown; aril apical.
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