Shrub or tree 3–15 m high. Bark rather smooth. Branchlets glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate-elliptic, straight, 7–16 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, acute to subacute, coriaceous, normally greyish green (from an innate mealiness), with 3–5 main longitudinal veins and a close reticulum between them. Inflorescences comprising 2-to 5-headed axillary racemes; raceme axes 6–17 mm long, glabrous, resinous; peduncles 5–10 mm long, densely puberulous; heads globular, 6–7 mm diam., c. 30-flowered, pale yellow to bright yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united to near their apices. Pods linear, raised over seeds, ±straight, to 10 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, crustaceous-coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 4–5 mm long, shiny, black; aril folded beneath the seed, white.
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