Irregularly formed shrub or rounded tree normally 2–7 m high, often suckering and forming thickets. Branchlets acutely triquetrous or flat at extremities, red-brown, glabrous. Phyllodes often pendulous, narrowly oblanceolate, sometimes narrowly elliptic or linear, straight to shallowly recurved, (4–) 6–16 (–20) cm long, (3–) 5–15 (–30) mm wide, obtuse, green to ash-coloured, glabrous, with prominent midrib and a weaker vein parallel to midrib near adaxial margin, finely penninerved; glands 1 or 2, with lowermost normally 1–3 cm above pulvinus and sometimes touching adaxial longitudinal nerve or connected to it by a fine oblique nerve. Inflorescences 8–25-headed racemes; raceme axes 1–6 (–7) cm long, glabrous; peduncles (2–) 3–6 (–8) mm long, glabrous; heads globular, (15–) 20–35-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5‑merous; sepals united. Pods ±moniliform, to 20 cm long, 4–6 mm wide, thinly coriaceous to crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 6.5–8 mm long, slightly shiny, dark brown; funicle encircling seed in a single fold, reddish black; aril clavate.
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