Glabrous shrub to 2 m high; inflorescences and young growth resinous. Phyllodes sigmoid to shallowly incurved, sometimes straight, terete to subterete, rarely flat in Northern Territory specimens, 0.5–2 cm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, rounded-truncate, rostriform with an excentric blunt point, uncinate to subuncinate, dark green, very obscurely 2-veined, 1-veined per face when flat; nerves commonly brownish and slightly impressed when dry; gland at base of mucro. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 5–15 mm long, ebracteate at base; heads globular, 20–30-flowered, light-to mid-golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals to ½-united. Pods (immature) constricted between seeds, strongly curved to 1½-coiled, to 4 cm long, 4 mm wide, longitudinally reticulate. Seeds (immature) longitudinal.
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