Spreading shrub 0.15–0.4 m tall. Branches striate-ribbed, white-waxy between ribs, hirtellous. Branchlets short, straight, rigid, patent to inclined, spinose. Phyllodes obliquely ovate to elliptic or obovate, 3–6 mm long, 1.5–3.5 mm wide, narrowed to a short acute obliquely subrecurved apiculum, hirtellous, with scarcely prominent midrib, sometimes imperfectly 2-nerved; lateral nerves few or absent. Inflorescences rudimentary 1-headed racemes with axes greater than 0.5 mm long; peduncles 2.5–4 mm long, glabrous, recurved in fruit; basal bracts brown; heads globular, 9–11-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals irregularly united for more than half their length, ¼–⅓ length of petals; petals glabrous, nerveless. Pods rounded over seeds and variably constricted between them, curved, to 3 cm long, 4 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, dark coloured, glabrous; margins inrolled on one side. Seeds longitudinal, widely ovate, 3 mm long, shiny, dark brown except for yellow-brown tissue enveloping areole and extending to hilum; aril c. ¾ seed length.
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