Shrub 1–2 m high, resinous, slightly viscid. Branchlets slender, glabrous; ribs yellow. Phyllodes filiform, straight or shallowly incurved, compressed, 5–10 cm long, c. 1 mm wide, obliquely and excentrically mucronate, green, glabrous, with 2 veins per face separated by a groove; glands 1–4, with lowermost 1–1.5 cm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, (1–) 2 (–3) per axil; peduncles 5–8 mm long, puberulous; basal bract persistent; heads globular to obloid, 23–26-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ¾ to almost completely united. Pods linear, raised over seeds, to 7 cm long, c. 2 mm wide, firmly chartaceous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 3.5–4 mm long; aril small.
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