Shrub or small tree 2–7 m high. Bark 'Minni-Ritchi' type. Branchlets silvery appressed-pubescent with ± silky hairs, sometimes resinous. Phyllodes linear, substraight to shallowly incurved but often shallowly recurved towards apex, 8–20 cm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, not rigid, silvery-to grey-green, appressed-pubescent with ± silky hairs, with (3–) 7–9 ± raised veins on each face. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 4–9.5 mm long, appressed-pubescent; heads obloid to short-cylindrical, 7–15 mm long, 5.5–7 mm diam., 43–49-flowered, golden; receptacle with dense spreading hairs. Flowers 5-merous; sepals and petals ½–¾-united. Pods linear, slightly raised over seeds, straight to slightly curved, to 10 cm long, 5 mm wide, coriaceous, ± silvery subappressed-pilose. Seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic or oblong, 3.5–4 mm long, subglossy, light to dark brown; pleurogram double; aril apical.
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