Dense, spreading, intricate shrub 0.5–1.5 (–3) m high. Branchlets obscurely ribbed, lenticellular, glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic or lanceolate, slightly asymmetric, straight to shallowly recurved, ±patent, (11–) 15–36 mm long, (3–) 5–6 (–7) mm wide, pungent, rigid, glabrous, glaucous to subglaucous (green on new shoots) or red-purple; 3-nerved, minor nerves openly anastomosing; pulvinus much reduced. Inflorescences simple; peduncles 2–4 mm long, ±glabrous, basal bract often persistent; spikes 5–10 mm long, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united for ¾ their length. Pods narrowly oblong, not or slightly constricted between seeds, 2.5–5.5 cm long, 4–4.5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, light brown. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 3–4 mm long, black; aril creamy white.
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