Dense rounded shrub 0.5–2.5 m high. New shoots golden-sericeous. Branchlets terete, glabrous. Phyllodes reclined to erect, straight to shallowly curved, terete to subterete, 3.5–7 (–8) cm long, 1–1.3 mm diam., arcuate-acuminate to caudate-acuminate with a slender 1.5–7 mm long, puberulous or appressed-puberulous at first, ±glabrescent, rarely glabrous tip, glabrous (except usually tip), with 8 veins but sometimes appearing more when dry because of longitudinal wrinkling; nerves raised, distant; gland to 0.5 mm long, not always evident; pulvinus 1.5–3 mm long, cylindrical. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles 4–5.5 mm long, ±appressed-puberulous or glabrous; heads globular, 4–4.5 mm diam., 23–31-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free; petals usually free. Pods linear, raised on alternating sides over and slightly constricted between seeds, 5–7 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, thin-crustaceous, shiny, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic, 2.5–3 mm long, dull, brown; aril subterminal.
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