Shrub 1.5–3 m high, obconic with spreading, ± open crowns. Bark smooth, orange or grey. Branchlets slender, terete except angled at extremities, minutely and densely white-hairy. Phyllodes wide-spreading to ascending, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, straight and dimidiate to shallowly or moderately falcate, 8–12 cm long, 10–15 mm wide, narrowed at base, green or bluish green; finely multistriate with 2 subcentral veins more evident than the rest and sometimes confluent with one another near base; minor veins closely parallel, sometimes anastomosing; pulvinus distinct, 4–5 mm long, orange (fresh). Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles 7–12 mm long, sub-stout, glabrous or minutely hairy; spikes 2–4 (–4.5) cm long, 5–6 mm diam., dense, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; calyx ½–⅗ length of corolla, very shortly divided; petals c. 1.5 mm long. Pods prolific, linear, rounded over and slightly constricted between seeds, 7–9 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to very thinly crustaceous, brown, ± glabrous to minutely appressed-hairy. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to oblong-elliptic, 3.5–4 mm long, dark brown; aril white.
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