Bushy spreading shrub to 2.5 m high. Branchlets flattened and ±angled apically, soon terete and ribbed, appressed-puberulous, occasionally glabrous. Stipules 2–3 mm long, brittle, often only bases persistent. Phyllodes ±inequilateral, narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic, occasionally oblanceolate, straight to slightly recurved, usually 3–7 cm long and 4–15 mm wide, obliquely narrowed at apex to a ±straight, sometimes slightly pungent mucro, coriaceous, glabrous or (when young) sparsely appressed-hairy, 1-veined per face; gland 5–12 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, commonly 2 per axil, or sometimes rudimentary, 1-or 2-headed racemes with axes to 1 mm long; peduncles 5–10 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 6 mm diam., (28–) 35–55-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods submoniliform, ±curved to sigmoid, occasionally twisted at constrictions, to 6 cm long, to 3 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly crustaceous, black. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 3–4 mm long, dull, dark brown; aril terminal, conical, creamy white.
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