Spreading bushy shrub or tree 2–5 m high, rarely to 7.5 m high. New shoots densely citron-sericeous. Branchlets dark coloured, appressed-puberulous with white hairs. Phyllodes narrowly linear, 6–14 cm long, 1.5–3.5 mm wide, uncinate to subuncinate, thin; midrib appressed-puberulous (hairs pale yellow or white) otherwise glabrous or subglabrous; lateral veins obscure; glands rather prominent, 1 or 2, with lowermost 1–5 (–10 ) mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes 2–4 cm long, slender, appressed-puberulous with golden or white hairs; peduncles 2.5–5 mm long, with indumentum as on raceme axes; heads globular, 14–22-flowered, golden. Flowers mostly 5-merous; sepals c. ¾-united. Pods convex over and slightly to moderately constricted between seeds, to 11 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, glabrous. Seeds (few seen) longitudinal, oblong, 4.5–5 mm long, arillate.
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