Erect, ±obconic or rounded, multi-stemmed, ±gnarled shrub 1–3.5 m high, main stems and branches somewhat contorted. Branchlets glabrous except sparsely sericeous at the extremities. Phyllodes narrowly linear, straight to shallowly incurved or shallowly sigmoid, erect, glabrous or sparsely silvery-white appressed-hairy, flat to compressed or subterete, (5–) 6–9.5 cm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, delicately acuminate by ±shallowly curved, innocuous tips; finely multi-veined, margins occasionally resinous; gland basal. Flowers not seen. Peduncles (fruiting) 3–5 mm long. Pods narrowly oblong to broadly linear, 4–13 cm long, 7–9.5 mm wide, rounded over seeds, firmly coriaceous-crustaceous to ±subwoody, greyish midbrown to very dark brown (almost black), sparsely to moderately appressed hairy; marginal vein not thickened. Seeds longitudinal, obloid to ellipsoid, large (mostly 8–10 × 5–7.5 mm), shallowly concave at centre, dark brown to black; aril small and terminal.
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