Shrubs 0.5–2 m high. Branchlets shortly pilose; raised leaf bases becoming prominent on older parts. Phyllodes crowded, scattered or subverticillate, patent (erect on new shoots), ± straight, terete or slightly compressed, slender, 5–8 mm long, 0.3–0.4 mm wide, with obliquely narrowed and excentrically mucronulate apex, glabrous or sparsely pilose; nerves not discernible; glands absent. Inflorescences 1-headed racemes; raceme axis 0.5–1 mm long; peduncles 3–4 mm long, densely pale yellow puberulous; basal bract solitary; heads globular, 4 mm diam. (dry), 25-flowered, golden; bracteoles acuminate, exserted in buds. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ½–¾-united, densely pale yellow puberulous. Pods to 2.5 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, pilose, slightly viscid; dehisced valves curved to sigmoid. Seeds longitudinal, ovate, 3–3.5 mm long, shiny, brown; aril subterminal, ± clavate.
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