Arborescent shrubs 3–5 m tall or trees 3–9 (–12) m tall. Branchlets slender, angled at extremities (i.e. the uppermost few cm). Phyllodes dimidiate, subfalcate to falcate, 5–14 cm long, 0.4–3 cm wide, glabrous, pale green to dark grey-green; longitudinal nerves numerous, parallel and not anastomosing), close together (3–7 per mm) but with distinct inter-nerve spaces 0.1–0.2 (–0.3) mm wide, 3–7 nerves slightly more evident than the rest, free to base or occasionally some confluent with lower margin for a short distance above pulvinus; pulvinus 2–5 mm long. Inflorescences simple, 1–4 per axil; peduncles 3–8 mm long, glabrous; spikes 2–7 cm long, ±interrupted, pale yellow (approaching cream) to lemon yellow, commonly sweetly scented. Flowers 5-merous; calyx gamosepalous; ovary glabrous. Pods narrowly oblong, straight to moderately curved, 2.5–9 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, dehiscing along dorsal suture, crustose, resinous (resin fragrant and often partially shedding at maturity), nerves oblique and not overly prominent. Seeds oblique to transverse, ellipsoid, obovoid or ovoid, 3–6 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, glossy, black to very dark brown, funicle/aril variable in colour and length.
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