Bushy spreading shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets ± terete, often viscid, with indumentum variable and sparse to dense. Phyllodes somewhat crowded, ascending to erect, normally ± narrowly oblong, 7–20 mm long, (0.5–) 1–2.5 mm wide, often obliquely mucronate, sometimes subuncinate, glabrous to hairy; abaxial margin resinous; midrib resinous, close to adaxial margin and occasionally confluent with it near the apex (rarely central); gland not prominent, normally 1–2 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 5–12 mm long, slender, normally glabrous; basal bract persistent; heads prolific, globular, 10–18-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; calyx irregularly united, with lobes sometimes ±free. Pods curved to ±irregularly undulate or twisted, to 5 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, glabrous and viscid, sometimes glandular-hairy. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 3–5 mm long, slightly shiny, brown; aril terminal.
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