Erect or spreading, often straggling shrub 0.5–1.5 m high, sometimes to 2 m. Branchlets densely pubescent. Phyllodes ± spirally arranged to subverticillate and on prominent stem-projections, crowded, ascending to erect, straight but slightly recurved at apex, subterete to flat, 8–15 mm long, 0.7–1 mm wide, obliquely and excentrically mucronate apex, cuneate to obtuse base, green, sometimes asperulate, finely puberulous with ± antrorse and often tubercle-based hairs, finely longitudinally rugose when dry; veins not evident; pulvinus hairy. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 8–15 mm long, stout, densely pubescent, ebracteate at base; heads globular, (12–) 20–25 (–34)-flowered, bright deep golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. ½–¾-united, glabrous or sparely hairy; petals glabrous. Pods oblong to narrowly oblong, flat, ± straight-sided but sometimes constricted between some seeds, to 5.5 cm long, 9–15 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, blackish, glabrous, dehiscing unilaterally. Seeds transverse, elliptic, 3–4 mm long, arillate.
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