Shrub to 4 m tall, openly branched. Branchlets finely ribbed, hispidulous with mainly glandular hairs. Stipules persistent. Phyllodes erect, narrowly elliptic, asymmetric with lower margin ±straight and upper margin convex, 2–9 cm long, 8–18 mm wide, grey-green, glandular-hispidulous, with longitudinal nerves numerous, 3–5 more prominent than rest (midrib most pronounced); minor nerves close together and ±sparingly anastomosing; gland basal. Inflorescences simple, mostly 2 per axil; peduncles 7–15 mm long, glandular-hispidulous; spikes cylindrical, c. 4 cm long, bright-golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united at very base; petals hispidulous. Pods linear, raised over seeds, 3–5 mm wide, crustaceous, glandular-hispidulous; margins thick, pale-coloured. Seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic, 4.5 mm long, black; funicle/aril white.
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