Spreading shrub 0.5–2 m high. Branchlets crispate-villous to puberulous or appressed-puberulous, the hairs golden or white on young shoots. Stipules persistent, c. 1 mm long. Phyllodes elliptic to widely elliptic, oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate, mostly ± inequilateral, 10–22 mm long, 3–9 mm wide, rounded to obtuse, sometimes emarginate, mucronulate, minutely crispate-villous or glabrous, with 2 or 3 main veins and frequently anastomosing secondary veins; gland 1–5 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences (1-or) 2-headed racemes; raceme axes 1–7 mm long, sericeous to minutely pilose with golden hairs; peduncles 3–6 mm long, sericeous to minutely pilose, with pale yellow to bright golden hairs; heads globular, 4–5.5 mm diam., 28–35-flowered, golden; bracteoles ovate, lanceolate or quadrate-ovate, exserted or not in buds. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, golden-puberulous. Pods linear, ± coiled or only arcuate, to 3 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, villous. Seeds not seen.
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