Shrub or tree 1–4 m tall. Bark 'Minni-Ritchi' type. Branchlets appressed-pubescent. Phyllodes filiform, substraight to shallowly incurved, compressed to terete, 6–16 cm long, 0.7–1 mm diam., not rigid, ±appressed-pubescent (especially on the nerves), with 8 prominent nerves separated by deep furrows. Inflorescences simple, commonly 2 per axil; peduncles 0–0.5 mm long, densely white-puberulous; heads subglobular to short-cylindrical, 5–15 mm long, 5–6 mm diam., 18–42-flowered, golden; bracteoles spathulate with fan-shaped blade. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ⅔–¾-united. Pods linear, sometimes slightly undulate, straight, to 8 cm long, 4 mm wide, coriaceous, velvety with white or yellow hairs. Seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 3–3.5 mm long, glossy, brown-black, arillate.
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