Dense shrub 1–2.5 m high. Branchlets ±tomentulose to densely appressed-puberulous. Phyllodes occasionally deflexed, slightly asymmetric, oblong-elliptic to narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, 1–5 cm long, 3–6 mm wide, grey-green to glaucous, glabrous or sometimes sparsely appressed-puberulous, 1-veined per face; lateral veins obscure or absent; gland not prominent, 1–15 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences 4–10-headed racemes; raceme axes 1–4 cm long, usually densely hairy; peduncles 1–3 mm long, usually densely appressed-hairy; heads globular, subdensely 8–15-flowered, bright golden; bracteoles widely ovate to subcircular, dark brown to black. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united, brown; petals 1-veined; ovary glabrous. Pods stipitate, oblong to narrowly oblong, raised over seeds along midline, to 6 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, firmly chartaceous, blackish, slightly to moderately pruinose, glabrous. Seeds mostly transverse to oblique, elliptic to widely elliptic, c. 4 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, arillate.
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