Shrub 1-2.5 m high, open, single or multistemmed. Bark smooth, silver-grey. Branchlets slightly angular towards apices, red-brown or yellowish red, squamulose, resinous. Phyllodes linear, ±straight or slightly curved, 8-16 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, with prominent raised midnerve and 1 or 2 subprominent nerves parallel on each side; gland 1, small, basal. Spikes (6-) 9-13 mm long, open, pale yellow or golden. Flowers 5-merous, rarely 4-merous; calyx 0.6-0.8 mm long, dissected for 1/5-1/2, squamulose; corolla 1.5-2.1 mm long, dissected for 5/8-3/4, glabrous or with hairy apices; ovary glabrous. Pods linear, flat, 4-9 cm long, subwoody, glabrous; valves separating from apex, curling back tightly; margins yellowish, prominent. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to broadly oblong, 3-4 mm long, yellow-brown, darker later, pitted; areole closed.
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