Tree 3–8 m high, malodorous, gnarled or spreading; crown dense. Branchlets with a grey-white mealy bloom, sparsely appressed-puberulous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic, narrowed at both ends, straight to shallowly recurved, 4–11 cm long, 4–16 mm wide, with grey-white bloom as on branchlets, sparsely appressed-puberulous, with 1–3 veins more evident than the numerous closely parallel indistinct intervening ones. Inflorescences 5–15-headed racemes; raceme axes 4–8 (–20) mm long, sericeous; peduncles 7–12 mm long; heads globular, 4–4.5 mm diam., 20–25-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free; petals sparsely to densely appressed-puberulous. Pods curved to openly once-coiled, flat, 6–13 cm long, 12–25 mm wide, chartaceous, coarsely reticulate, ±glabrous. Seeds transverse to ±oblique, ±discoid, flat, peripherally crested, 9–12 mm long, dull, dark brown; funicle scarcely arillate.
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