Shrub to c. 1 m high and 2 m wide, spreading. Branchlets slender, angular, ribbed, resinous. Phyllodes terete (or drying somewhat angular), 8.5–15 cm long, 0.4–0.8 (–1) mm diam., glabrous, with a short oblique callus point; longitudinal veins 8, parallel; gland basal or up to 5 mm from base, with phyllode usually slightly bent when gland not at base; pulvinus 1–1.5 mm long. Spikes 10–25 mm long, in pairs at base of rudimentary axillary shoot; peduncles slender, 10–45 mm long. Flowers 5-merous; calyx glabrous, c. 0.7 mm long, divided almost to base into oblong obtuse lobes; corolla 1–1.2 mm long, divided to about middle; stamens c. 3 mm long; ovary glabrous. Pods flat, linear, 4–4.5 cm long, 2–3 mm wide; valves slightly resinous, rather woody with raised, longitudinally oblique, anastomosing veins. Seeds longitudinal to slightly oblique, dark grey, c. 3 mm long, c. 1.5 mm wide; aril cupular.
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