Bushy shrub normally to 3 m high. Branchlets finely ribbed, dark red, glabrous. Phyllodes mostly ascending to erect, often patent at ends of branchlets, variable, linear to linear-oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 3–6 (–8) cm long, usually 2.5–5 mm wide, narrowed at base, glaucous to subglaucous, glabrous, 1-veined; lateral veins ±absent; gland not prominent, 0–7 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes 0.5–4 cm long, glabrous; peduncles 2.5–3.5 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, subdensely 9–15-flowered, golden; bracteole laminae transversely elliptic, dark brown, white-fimbriolate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united; petals 1-veined. Pods to 5.5 cm long, c. 1 cm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, ±black, glabrous. Seeds oblique (end ones sometimes longitudinal) oblong to elliptic to ovate, 4–5 mm long, somewhat shiny, black; aril clavate.
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