Dense, spreading, glabrous shrub 1–2 m high; branches somewhat willowy. Branchlets strongly acutely angled towards apices, ribbed below phyllode insertion. Phyllodes crowded, erect, narrowly oblong or linear to oblanceolate, straight, 10–18 mm long, 1–2 (–3) mm wide, l: w ratio = 5–10, ±truncate and excentrically rostellate, imbricate, dark green; midrib not prominent; lateral veins absent; gland adjacent to apical mucro. Inflorescences 1-headed, rudimentary racemes with axes c. 0.5 mm long, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 4–10 mm long, slender; heads prolific, globular, 9–15-flowered, bright golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, ±straight, to 7 cm long, 4.5–6 mm wide, firmly chartaceous. Seeds ±longitudinal, oblong to broadly ovate-elliptic, 3.5–4 mm long, slightly ridged peripherally, shiny, dark brown; aril subterminal, clavate.
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