Spreading shrub to 1 m tall. Branchlets velvety, pubescent or pilose with ±erect white hairs. Stipules 0.6–1.2 mm long. Phyllodes in whorls of (8–) 10–14, spreading to erect, straight or recurved, slightly flattened, 2–4 (–9) mm long, with setaceous curved mucro 0.5–1.5 mm long, velvety to pilose, sometimes viscid, with an obscure impressed adaxial nerve. Peduncles 10–24 mm long, pilose. Heads 30–40-flowered. Flowers 5-or 6-merous; calyx 0.5–0.9 mm long, ribbed; calyx lobes linear, thick, slightly incurved, glabrous or sparsely hairy, or occasionally fringed with hairs; corolla lobes striate, hispid. Pods sessile, sometimes constricted between seeds, to 55 mm long, 4–6 mm wide, glabrous or occasionally pubescent; margins slightly thickened. Seeds longitudinal, 4–6 mm long; pleurogram open.
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