Compact intricate glabrous shrub normally 0.15– 0.5 m tall, sometimes forming prostrate mounds. Ultimate branchlets ascending to erect, short, straight, rigid, somewhat spinose, yellow-ribbed, interstices green, sometimes pruinose. Stipules caducous. Phyllodes sessile, ±patent, usually ovate to widely ovate, usually 2–4 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, pungent, rigid, thick, green to glaucous, prominently 1-nerved per face; adaxial margin thickened and 2-nerved, with adaxial marginal nerves sometimes coalescing. Inflorescences rudimentary binate racemes with axes shorter than 0.5 mm long; peduncles 1.5–3 mm long, recurved in fruit; basal bract caducous, cucullate; heads showy, globular, 7–13-flowered, bright golden; bracteoles absent or resembling sepals. Flowers 5-merous; calyx absent or reduced to a single linear sepal. Pods curved to openly once-coiled, to 25 mm long, c. 2.5 mm wide. Seeds longitudinal, 2.7–2.9 mm long, commonly mottled; aril ½ or more length of seed, white.
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