Shrub 1–2 m high, erect, open, often spindly. Branchlets slightly angled, ±tuberculate, glabrous, resinous. Phyllodes ascending, incurved, terete, 1.5–3.5 cm long, 0.7–0.8 mm diam., with strongly excentrically curved acute tip, dull grey-green, glabrous, with resinous impressed veins forming a coarse regular reticulum with markedly raised areoles; gland to 2 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil, occasionally paired; peduncles 2.5–4.5 (–6) mm long, puberulous; basal bracts ovate, acute; heads globular, 3.5–4.5 mm diam., 15–17-flowered; bracteoles ±spathulate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ⅓–½-united. Pods linear, raised over seeds, strongly curved, to 6 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, thinly chartaceous, smooth, glabrous, resinous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, compressed, 4–5.5 mm long, dull, dark brown; aril membranous, apical.
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