Domed shrub 0.5–0.8 m tall. Branchlets terete, obscurely nerved, strigose with short, straight, closely appressed hairs, glabrescent. Stipules subpersistent, 1.5–2 mm long. Phyllodes shallowly to strongly incurved or sigmoid, terete to subterete, 3–7.5 cm long, c. 1 mm diam., ±pungent, coriaceous, glabrous except sparsely appressed-puberulous at base, striate by 16 slightly raised close nerves; gland 2–4 mm above pulvinus; pulvinus smooth, flared at base. Inflorescences simple,1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 4–6 (–8) mm long, appressed-puberulous; basal peduncular bract subcaducous, rostriform, 3–4 mm long, dark brown; heads globular, c. 5 mm diam., 20–30-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, linear-spathulate. Pods submoniliform, strongly raised over seeds, to 3 cm long, 2 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, curved, sparsely appressed puberulous to glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic, c. 2 mm long, light grey mottled dark brown; aril well-developed.
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