Dense domed glabrous shrub to c. 1.5 m tall. Phyllodes inequilaterally elliptic to obovate, with markedly convex adaxial margin, 10–15 mm long, 5–9 mm wide, rounded-mucronulate with a ±lateral mucro, subfleshy, smooth, subglaucous, ageing dull green; midrib and lateral nerves absent or obscure; marginal nerves brownish; gland small, 0.5–2 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences 7–10-headed racemes; raceme axes 1–2.5 cm long, enclosed when young by small bracts, often growing out with subsequent peduncles subtended by secondary phyllodes; peduncles 4–16 mm long, slender; heads globular, 15–21-flowered, bright mid-golden; bracteoles absent. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods (slightly immature) narrowly oblong, conspicuously rounded over seeds alternately on each side along the midline, to 6 cm long, 11 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, brown. Seeds (slightly immature) transverse, oblong-elliptic, to 4 mm long, scarcely arillate.
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