Spreading shrub or tree 1.5–3.5 m high. Branchlets appressed-to subappressed-puberulous with ±straight hairs. Phyllodes frequently patent and shallowly recurved, asymmetrically oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 2–6 cm long, 3–9 mm wide, l: w ratio = 4–12, obliquely acute to obtuse or truncate, mucronate, thinly coriaceous, densely appressed-pubescent at first, glabrescent; midrib not prominent; glands 1–3 often on small projections of adaxial margin, lowermost 5–10 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles 5–10 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 4.5–6 mm diam., 20–40-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods moniliform, arcuate to loosely and ±irregularly coiled or twisted, to c. 4 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, sparsely strigulose. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic, 2.5–3 mm long, shiny, dark brown to black; aril 1/2 to wholly enveloping seed, bright orange.
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