Erect or semiprostrate multistemmed shrub normally 0.3–0.4 m tall. Branchlets pubescent or glabrous. Stipules setaceous, 2–4 mm long, erect. Phyllodes dimidiate, broadest near or above the middle with the adaxial margin conspicuously rounded, 7–16 mm long, 2–7 mm wide, acuminate, pungent, commonly shallowly recurved, with indumentum as on branchlets except sparser; midrib prominent, intersecting adaxial margin below cusp; gland obscure, 0–1 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles normally 6–12 mm long, pubescent or glabrous; heads globular, 20–35-flowered, cream or white; bracteoles narrow, acuminate, exserted in buds. Calyx absent; petals 5, rarely 6, 1-nerved. Pods ±flat, curved, to 40 mm long, 3.5–5 mm wide, coriaceous, red-brown, coarsely striate, hirtellous. Seeds oblong, 4 mm long, mottled; aril terminal, conical, whitish.
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