Shrub usually 1–2 m high, often suckering. Branchlets with indumentum of dense straight closely appressed fine white hairs. New shoots sericeous, with hairs light golden, cream or ±ferruginous, ageing silvery white. Phyllodes ascending to erect, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, mostly shallowly incurved, mostly 5–8 cm long and 8–16 mm wide, acute or obtuse-mucronate, grey-green to subglaucous, with indumentum as on branchlets but ±sparse or rarely absent with age; midrib prominent; lateral veins obscure; gland rather prominent, not raised, normally 1–3.5 cm above base. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes 20–35 mm long, densely appressed-hairy; peduncles 1.5–2.5 mm long; heads obloid to shortly cylindrical, 20–25-flowered, bright golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods narrowly oblong, to 5 cm long, c. 7 mm wide, ±sericeous with silvery white hairs. Seeds (immature) longitudinal.
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