Diffuse shrub to c. 1 m high. Upper branches dividing into ±numerous, short, straight, rigid, spinose or sub-spinose, glabrous branchlets. Bark grey. Stipules early caducous, 1–2 mm long, not fused. Phyllodes narrowly oblong to narrowly lanceolate, narrowed towards apex, 6–12 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, pungent by a slender subulate dark brown cusp 1–1.5 mm long, flat, straight, patent, rigid, glabrous or hirtellous as on branchlets but hairs slightly shorter; midrib ±prominent, upper margin 2-veined below gland and 1-veined above gland; sessile with pulvinus ±absent; gland not prominent, (1–) 2–5 mm above base. Inflorescences simple; heads globular, ±sessile, 5–9-flowered; bracteoles widely spathulate, ±sessile, 1–1.5 × c. 1 mm, concave, brown, obtuse. Flowers 5-merous; calyx gamosepalous, widely turbinate. Pods ±linear to submoniliform, to c. 35 mm long (expanded length), 2.5–3 mm wide, irregularly strongly curved to openly coiled or twisted, undulate, prominently rounded over seeds, glabrous, dark brown to black; aril clavate, c. ½ as long as seed.
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