Open glabrous shrub normally 1.5–3 m high. Branchlets red to red-brown, lightly to obviously pruinose. Phyllodes obovate-oblanceolate to elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 15–30 mm long, 6–14 mm wide, l: w ratio = 2–3, obtuse, sometimes subacute, with central or slightly excentric mucro, coriaceous, glaucous to subglaucous; midrib not prominent, central or towards adaxial margin; lateral veins obscure; gland not prominent, 0.5–4 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences normally 5–9-headed racemes; raceme axes mostly 1–5 cm long, sometimes flexuose and pruinose; peduncles 3–6 mm long; heads globular, 8–10 mm diam. at anthesis (fresh), rather loosely 5–10-flowered, bright golden; buds large, tinged reddish. Flowers 5‑merous; sepals united, ±pruinose. Pods to 8 cm long, 6–8 (–10) mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, blackish, pruinose when young. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic to ovate, c. 5 mm long, slightly shiny, black; aril clavate.
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