Prostrate, domed or spreading subshrub to c. 0.5 m tall. Branchlets pubescent to villous, glabrescent. Stipules subpersistent, 1–2 mm long. Phyllodes subcrowded, slightly asymmetric, narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, occasionally lanceolate, 1–2 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, l:w ratio = 2.5–7.5, normally acute, excentrically or obliquely mucronate, coarsely to sharply pungent, coriaceous, glabrous, infrequently pubescent; midrib evident and situated slightly towards the 1-nerved abaxial margin; adaxial margin finely 2-nerved with nerves usually coalescing near or above middle of phyllode; gland inconspicuous, to 1 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple or extremely rudimentary 1-or 2-headed racemes with axes less than 0.5–1 mm long; peduncles 7–15 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 4–4.5 mm diam., 20–30-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods (immature) linear, 1-or 2-coiled, with one margin ±puberulous. Seeds not seen.
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