Weak tree or shrub 2–7 m tall. Branchlets terete, pruinose, glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly elongate-elliptic to linear, straight to shallowly curved, 15–25 cm long, 6–14 mm wide, attenuate at base, acute to acuminate, coriaceous, glabrous, with a prominent central nerve, with a second weaker longitudinal nerve sometimes present; secondary nerves ±reticulate; marginal nerves discrete and yellow; lowermost gland ±basal, with 1–4 smaller glands on upper marginal nerve; pulvinus 4–5 mm long, pruinose. Inflorescences in axillary or terminal racemes, or simple; raceme axes 2–10 cm long, ±pruinose, glabrous; peduncles 1–4 in phyllode axils or at nodes along raceme axes, 8–25 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, ±5 mm diam., densely 46–56-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ¾-united, apically densely puberulous with white and pale yellow hairs; petal indumentum as on sepal apices. Pods stipitate, linear, straight, flat, to 11 cm long, 10–11 mm wide, coriaceous to subwoody, openly reticulate, glabrous; margins thickened. Seeds (immature) oblique; aril apical, galeiform.
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