Spreading open shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets scabrous, tuberculate with minute hairs commonly at apex of tubercules. Phyllodes asymmetric, narrowly oblong-elliptic, sometimes lanceolate, normally shallowly incurved, 10–30 mm long, 3–10 mm wide, l: w ratio = 3–7, often acute, glabrous to subglabrous; midrib prominent; lateral veins forming an obscure open reticulum, with peg-like tubercles on abaxial (sometimes also adaxial) margin; gland 3–5 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 5–12 mm long, hispidulous to subglabrous; heads globular, 10–20-flowered, pale yellow to almost white. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. ¾-united, with acute lobes. Pods oblong to narrowly oblong, ±elliptic when 1-seeded, to 4.5 cm long, 7.5–10.5 mm wide, 1–3-seeded, thickly coriaceous to subwoody, blackish, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 7.5–8.5 mm long, c. 4.5 mm wide, turgid; funicle-aril linear-clavate, lying along margin of seed.
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