Densely branched glabrous shrub 0.6–1.6 m tall. Branchlets ribbed, sometimes slightly glaucous. Phyllodes erect, narrowly linear, sometimes linear-oblanceolate, often abruptly incurved at gland, compressed to flat, 2.5–4 cm long, 2–3 (–4) mm wide, obtuse or acute, obscurely mucronulate, thick, rigid, subglaucous, with 6 raised nerves in all, 2-nerved per face; gland distinct, 8–30 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles 3–8 mm long; basal bract caducous, cucullate, c. 2 mm long; heads globular, 3.5–4 mm diam., 6–16-flowered, golden; bracteoles oblanceolate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, ±constricted between seeds, straight to shallowly curved, to 22 mm long, 3 mm wide, thin-crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, narrow elliptic, 2.5 mm long, shiny, tan; aril clavate, extending along one side.
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