Spreading glabrous shrub 0.3–0.7 m tall. Phyllodes ascending to erect, narrowly oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, horizontally flattened, planoconvex when narrow, 8–15 mm long, 2–3.5 mm wide, apiculate, scarcely thickened, normally shallowly concave above when dry, green to subglaucous (new growth glaucous with youngest phyllodes tinged purple); midrib (on lower surface) evident, slightly raised when dry; marginal nerves evident; gland on upper surface near or above middle of phyllode, commonly absent. Inflorescences rudimentary 2-headed racemes with axes more than 0.5 mm long; peduncles 5–8 mm long, recurved in fruit; basal bract rostriform and 2–2.5 mm long; heads globular, ±4 mm diam., 13–15-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods narrowly oblong, curved in suture plane, ±circinnate or sigmoid, to 4 cm long, 5–7 mm wide, thinly coriaceous-chartaceous, lightly pruinose. Seeds oblique, ovate, c. 3 mm long, mottled brown; aril subterminal.
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