Erect to spreading, glabrous shrub to 3 m high. Branchlets somewhat angled at extremities. Stipules insignificant. Phyllodes normally oblanceolate, sometimes oblong-oblanceolate, elliptic or elliptic-oblanceolate, straight to shallowly incurved, (1.6–) 2–5.5 (–7) cm long, (3–) 4–10 (–19) mm wide with l: w ratio = 4–10, obtuse but frequently obliquely so, often retuse, slightly thickened, smooth; midrib not prominent; lateral veins absent or obscure; glands 2, with apical gland adjacent to mucro, and lower one near or below middle of phyllode , 0.5 mm long and normally shallowly concave. Inflorescences rudimentary 1-headed racemes with axes c. 0.5 mm long, 2–5 per node; peduncles 4–10 (–12) mm long, drying yellow or blackish; heads globular, 14–25-flowered, bright mid-golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, prominently raised over seeds, slightly to prominently curved, to 8 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, firmly chartaceous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic to widely elliptic-oblong, 3–4 mm long, subnitid, dark brown; aril ±clavate, ¼–⅓ length of seed.
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