Dense rounded shrub or tree, 1.5–4 m tall. Branchlets ± pruinose, glabrous. Phyllodes orbicular to widely elliptic, 2–5 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide, obtuse, subfleshy with age, glaucous, lightly pruinose, glabrous, 2-nerved, imperfectly 3–4-nerved on broadest phyllodes; lateral nerves not prominent, anastomoses few, sometimes obscured by wrinkling; glands 2, with lowermost 1–8 mm above pulvinus, and uppermost at base of mucro. Inflorescences normally 4–12-headed racemes; raceme axes 2–4 cm long; peduncles twinned, 5–10 mm long, rather stout, glabrous; heads globular, subdense, c. 20-flowered, golden. Flowers 5 merous; sepals united into a ±truncate calyx. Pods strongly curved to openly once-coiled, to 10 cm long, 12–15 mm wide, coriaceous-crustaceous, lightly pruinose, glabrous, shallowly undulate on outer margin. Seeds longitudinal, widely oblong-elliptic, c. 4.5 mm long, shiny, dark brown to black; aril large, yellow-brown (dry).
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