Sparingly branched shrub or tree to 6 m high. Branchlets slender, lenticellular, dark reddish brown, glabrous, viscid (vernicose when dry). Phyllodes ascending to erect, narrowly linear, straight to shallowly curved, 13–23 cm long, 1.5–5 mm wide, acute to obtuse-mucronate, with callose brown mucro, thin, not rigid, sparsely and obscurely longitudinally wrinkled when dry, glabrous, 1-veined; gland 0–6 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences 1–3 per axil, normally comprising 1-headed racemes with a minute axis c. 1 mm long; peduncles 8–11 (–18) mm long, glabrous, sometimes viscid; basal bract persistent; heads globular, 20–30-flowered, bright golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods submoniliform, to c. 6 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, c. 4 mm long, exarillate.
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