Shrub 0.5–1.2 m high, dense to open, domed, erect or spreading. Branchlets densely white-woolly. New shoots yellow-green. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, 1.5–4 cm long, 3.5–10 mm wide, greyish green, densely woolly, with 3 main longitudinal veins and with prominent longitudinally anastomosing secondary veins in between; venation obscured by indumentum; gland 2–6 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 2–4 mm long, woolly; basal bract persistent; heads globular, 5–7 mm diam., 30–32-flowered, golden; bracteoles stipitate, ovate, shortly acuminate, exserted in bud. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods oblong, to 2.5 cm long, 6–7 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, densely woolly. Seeds elliptic, 3 mm long, tan; aril subapical.
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