Spreading rather dense glabrous shrub 1–2.5 m high. New shoots, phyllode nerves and bracteoles commonly mealy. Phyllodes oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, straight to shallowly incurved, usually 2–5 cm long, 3–8 mm wide, obtuse-mucronulate or ±acute, thin, green or subglaucous, 1-or 2-nerved per face; midrib near abaxial margin (infrequently central); adaxial margin 2-nerved; minor nerves anastomosing to form an open longitudinal reticulum; gland not prominent, 0–2 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, mostly 2 per axil; peduncles c. 2 mm long, ±obscured by stamens at anthesis; basal bract persistent; heads globular, 17–22-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united to near apex. Pods linear, shallowly curved, to 9 cm long, 3.5 mm wide, firmly chartaceous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 4 mm long, shiny, dark brown; aril terminal, orange-brown when dry.
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