Shrub 1–4 m tall, glabrous, resinous, viscid. Branchlets often sparsely tuberculate. Phyllodes obovate to oblanceolate or narrowly oblong-elliptic, 1.5–4 (–5) cm long, (3–) 4–10 (–15) mm wide, l:w ratio = 3–6, obtuse, mucronulate, coriaceous to thinly coriaceous, smooth or sparsely tuberculate, dull grey-green or glaucous, frequently with a whitish bloom (especially over the nerves) due to dry resin; with 2 or 3 prominent longitudinal nerves, with secondary nerves forming a relatively fine, open, net-like reticulum; basal gland elongate, c. 1.5 mm long, with an obscure smaller gland at base of the minute apical mucro. Inflorescences simple, 1–3 per axil; peduncles 1–2 (–3) cm long, ebracteate at base; heads globular or obloid, 5–6 (–8) mm diameter when dry, densely 30–40-flowered, golden. Flowers 5‑merous; sepals united almost to their apices. Pods stipitate, oblong to narrowly oblong, flat, raised over seeds alternately on each side, to 9 cm long, 9–11 (–15) mm wide, firmly chartaceous, often ±vernicose; stipitate. Seeds transverse, c. 4 mm long, arillate.
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