Shrub commonly 0.3–2 m high. Branchlets glabrous or puberulous with hairs normally appressed. Stipules caducous, connate, c. 2 mm long. Phyllodes linear to narrowly oblong, obovate, oblanceolate or orbicular, planoconvex or subterete to horizontally flattened, 3–17 mm long, 1–7 mm wide, obtuse, fleshy, often sulcate when dry, glaucous at least when young (colour unknown for subsp. psammophila), usually glabrous, superficially veinless or faintly 3-veined below and 1-veined above; gland on upper surface near or above middle of phyllode. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 4–12 mm long, glabrous; heads showy, globular, 4–5 mm diam., densely 20–35-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free or sometimes ½-united. Pods linear, slightly constricted between seeds, shallowly arcuate to openly once-coiled, to 3 cm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, longitudinally reticulate, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 2.5–3 mm long, ± shiny, mottled or solid brown; aril oblique.
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