Rigid shrub 1–2 m high. Branchlets with straight to ± crisped and patent to appressed hairs, with resin hairs absent or few. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic, linear-elliptic or linear-oblanceolate, straight to shallowly recurved, usually 3–5.5 cm long and 3–7 mm wide, acute to obtuse, sometimes shortly acuminate, pungent to innocuous, coriaceous, somewhat villous when young, commonly glabrescent, with 3 or 4 main veins; minor veins between anastomosing or not; gland 0–13 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, (1–) 2 (–4) per node; peduncles 2–9 mm long, hairy to glabrous; basal bract persistent; heads globular to obloid, 4.5–6.5 mm diam., 5–7 mm long, 20–30-flowered, golden; bracteoles sessile to subsessile, obovate, acute to acuminate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ⅔–¾-united. Pods linear, curved to openly once-coiled, to 10 cm long, 4–6 mm wide, coriaceous, villous-tomentose. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to broadly elliptic, 4.5–5 mm long, dull, dark brown, verruculose; aril apical.
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