Shrub to 1 m tall, low, dense, resinous. Bark 'Minni Ritchi', grey or greyish red. Branchlets terete, puberulous becoming glabrous with age. Phyllodes ascending, obliquely oblong-elliptic to narrowly elliptic (occasionally some phyllodes obovate to oblanceolate), (0.6–) 0.9–1.5 cm long, (2–) 3–7 mm wide, with indumentum as on branchlets, apically rounded with lateral mucro, with a prominent midnerve and a second longitudinal nerve running adjacent to the thickened adaxial margin (sometimes several subprominent nerves in wider phyllodes); minor lateral nerves anastomosing longitudinally; gland 1, obscure, basal, 2–4.5 mm above pulvinus. Spikes 10–18 mm long, to 25 mm in fruit, bright golden. Flowers 5-merous, occasionally 4-merous; calyx 0.5–0.6 mm long, dissected to ½–⅔ of its length, glabrous; corolla 1.2–1.5 mm long, dissected to c. ½ of its length, glabrous. Pods flat but slightly raised over seeds, curved to once-coiled, sometimes twisted, to 8.5 cm long, 5.5–7.5 mm wide, coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds oblique, rotund to very broadly elliptic, 3–5 mm long, dark tan; areole small, closed, surrounded by pale halo.
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