Much-branched diffuse shrub, normally 0.2-0.5 m tall. Bark light grey. Branchlets hirsutellous or glabrous. Stipule bases commonly persisting as tooth-like projections. Phyllodes subdistant, sessile, patent to slightly reflexed, narrowly triangular to linear or narrowly oblong, 6.5–20 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, pungent, green, glabrous or subglabrous; midrib not prominent; gland basal. Inflorescences mostly 1-or 2-headed racemes; raceme axes 1–2 mm long, often growing out at anthesis; peduncles 3–7 mm long, glabrous or subglabrous; heads sparse, globular, 5–7-flowered, cream to white. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ⅓–½-united, c. ¼ length of petals; petals nerveless. Pods submoniliform, to 5 cm long, 4–5.5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, finely longitudinally reticulate, glabrous, dehiscing along adaxial suture. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic, 4.5–6 mm long, dull, dark brown; aril ±conical, terminal.
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