Spindly, open, glabrous, commonly single-stemmed shrub 2–4 m tall. Branchlets pruinose, roughened by raised scars of fallen phyllodes. Phyllodes elliptic to ovate, often shallowly concave and reflexed, 1.5–3.5 cm long, 7–15 mm wide, l:w ratio = 1.5–3, acute to subacute, mucronulate, coriaceous, pruinose, glaucous, with slightly raised midrib, subobscurely finely penninerved. Inflorescences axillary and/or terminal racemes, often interspersed with some simple, axillary peduncles; raceme axes 10–40 mm long; peduncles 6–13 (–25) mm long, often pruinose; heads globular to slightly obloid, 5–6 mm diameter, 45–65-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, rounded over and ±constricted between seeds, to 6 cm long, 5–6 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, pruinose. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to slightly elliptic, 4 mm long, dull, dark brown; funicle c. ½ encircling seed; aril clavate.
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