Shrub ±1 m tall, diffuse to dense, erect or prostrate. Branchlets angled, sometimes ±glaucous, puberulous, appressed-puberulous or glabrous. Stipules caducous. Phyllodes sessile, patent to ±inclined, narrowly elliptic to widely elliptic to subtriangular, linear or subulate, straight, recurved or rarely upcurved, 1–5 cm long, 1–7 mm wide, pungent, rigid, often ±glaucous, glabrous to puberulous, with 3 or 4 distant raised main nerves. Inflorescences simple, 2–5 per axil; peduncles mostly 5–9 mm long, glabrous, infrequently ±puberulous; heads globular, 3–5.5 mm diam., 24–67-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, raised over seeds on alternating sides, ±constricted between seeds, straight, to 6 cm long, 3.5–6 mm wide, coriaceous, with lighter midline on each valve, glabrous or puberulous. Seeds longitudinal, widely elliptic to ovate, 2.8–3.7 mm long, dull, mottled; aril subapical to lateral, galeiform.
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