Openly branched shrub to 2.5 m tall. Bark smooth, grey. New shoots villous, hairs lemon yellow. Branchlets terete except slightly flattened at extremities, sparsely to densely silvery pubescent. Stipules 4–5 mm long. Phyllodes dimidiate or slightly subfalcate, sometimes with shallowly recurved apices, 9–15 cm long, 2.5–4.5 cm wide, thinly coriaceous, sparsely to moderately sericeous, grey green; longitudinal nerves numerous and parallel (nerves 6–7 per mm and with broad internerve spaces between them), anastomoses rare, 3–7 main nerves more evident than the rest; pulvinus 5–10 mm long, hairy, brown. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles 8–10 mm long, densely hairy. Flowers not seen but fruiting receptacle of spike to 8 cm long. Pods linear, sometimes slightly constricted between the seeds, subterete to slightly flattened, coiled, sometimes twisted, 2–7 mm wide, crustaceous, sparsely pubescent, longitudinally wrinkled. Seeds ±longitudinal, elliptic to irregularly ovate, 3–4 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, glossy, black; funicle/aril twice-folded, cream.
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