Shrub 0.4–1 m high, much-branched, spreading. Branchlets terete, commonly with longer straight gland-tipped hairs and shorter antrorsely curved hairs. Stipules persistent, ± acicular, free, 1–1.5 mm long, sublateral. Phyllodes crowded, ascending, inequilaterally cuneate, obovate, oblanceolate or elliptic, ± curved, 3.5–7 mm long, 1.2–2.5 mm wide, straight to recurved at apex which is ± pungent by a short slender mucro, coriaceous, puberulous (many hairs gland-tipped), obscurely 3-nerved; nerves sometimes superficially absent; gland inconspicuous. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 9–17 mm long, puberulous; heads globular, 4–6 mm diam., 25–56-flowered; bracteoles fusiform to narrowly spathulate, acuminate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ½-united. Pods linear, slightly raised over seeds, curved, to 4 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, coriaceous, glandular-puberulous and with shorter ±curved hairs. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 6 mm long, dull, dark brown; aril apical.
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