Diffuse spreading subshrub 0.25–0.6 m high. Branchlets pubescent to appressed-pubescent. Stipules persistent, recurved-spinose, 1.5–3 mm long. Phyllodes patent to ascending, ± inequilaterally narrowly elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, often shallowly recurved, with upper margin normally shallowly convex, 1.3–2.5 cm long, 2.5–4 mm wide, acuminate, pungent, rigid, coriaceous, glaucous or pale green, glabrous, with numerous fine closely parallel veins. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles 4–10 mm long, sparsely puberulous or glabrous; heads globular, 4–5.5 mm diam., 31–52-flowered, pale golden to deep golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free to ½-united. Pods flat, raised over seeds, straight, to 18 mm long, 9–12 mm wide, papery, light brown, glabrous. Seeds transverse, ovate, ± 2.5 mm long, dull, mottled brown, exarillate.
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