Spreading shrub 1–4 m high. Branchlets minutely pilose with mixed stellate and simple hairs, often viscid. Phyllodes patent, narrowly oblong to elliptic, mostly 2–4.5 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, acute to obtuse, coriaceous, with sparse to moderately dense simple or stellate hairs, occasionally glabrous, viscid, with 3–7 distant ± raised (2 or 3 strongly raised) main veins and loosely anastomosing minor veins; gland basal. Inflorescences 2-or 3-headed racemes; raceme axes 2–6 mm long; peduncles 2–5 mm long, densely minutely pilose to tomentulose with white hairs; heads globular, 5–9 mm diam., 20–45-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, ± constricted between seeds, ± curved or slightly coiled, to 7 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, puberulous basally and marginally. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to narrowly oblong-elliptic, 4–5 mm long, glossy, brown-black; aril apical.
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