Much-branched ±rounded glabrous shrub, 1.5–3 m tall. Branchlets rigid, ascending to erect, rather straight and sparingly divided, obscurely ribbed, grey-green to ash-grey, pale green when young, somewhat spinose. Phyllodes distant and few, often shed upon collection, linear, 2–4 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, scarcely pungent, colour as on branchlets; midrib obscure. Inflorescences 2–4-headed racemes, sometimes simple and 1-headed; raceme axes 2–15 mm long; peduncles 7–15 mm long; heads globular, loosely 14–16-flowered, cream. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united, truncate, ¼ or less length of corolla. Pods rounded over seeds and slightly to prominently constricted between them, to 20 cm long, c. 1 cm wide, thinly coriaceous, brown. Seeds longitudinal, ±globose to broadly oblong-elliptic, 8-9 mm long, shiny, dark brown, arillate.
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