Rounded shrub to c. 3 m high, glabrous, somewhat viscid; young shoots reddish. Phyllodes ascending to erect, sometimes patent, narrowly linear, shallowly curved to shallowly sigmoid, 6–10 cm long, usually 2–3 mm wide, l: w ratio = 30–40, narrowed towards base, obtuse to acute, with slightly thickened mucro, green, with somewhat tuberculate margins; midrib usually evident; lateral veins obscure and subparallel to midrib; gland linear, usually 0.5–1.5 mm long, 1.5–4 mm above pulvinus, with a smaller circular gland at base of mucro. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 3–5 mm long, ebracteate at base; heads globular, c. 30-flowered, deep golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. ⅔-united. Pods narrowly oblong to linear, convex over seeds, to 8 cm long, 5–7 mm wide, firmly chartaceous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic to ovate, 2.5–3.5 mm long; funicle folded below the oblique aril.
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