Open shrub 1–4 m high. Branchlets red-brown, glabrous. Phyllodes rather spreading, sometimes deflexed, narrowly oblanceolate, incurved, 7–12 cm long, (3–) 5–12 mm wide, narrowed at base, obtuse, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib and margins prominent; lateral veins obscure; glands 3–6, with the lowermost ±basal. Raceme axes 2–6 cm long, rather stout, glabrous; peduncles 3–6 mm long, rather stout, glabrous; heads globular, c. 1 cm diam. at anthesis, densely 30–45-flowered, golden; bracteole laminae evident in buds, ±circular, dark brown to black, white-fimbriolate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, rounded over seeds, to c. 13 cm long, 5–6 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, blackish, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 4–5 mm long; funicle encircling seed in a single fold, light reddish; aril clavate.
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