Shrub 0.3-2.5 m tall, dense, erect or semi-prostrate. Branchlets glabrous to hairy. Phyllodes patent to erect, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate-oblong, or linear to oblanceolate-linear, ±curved, 1.8–10.5 cm long, 2–7 mm wide, acute to obtuse, mucronulate, coriaceous to rigid-coriaceous, ±glaucous, glabrous except pulvinus puberulous ; nerves numerous, closely parallel, raised, irregular, occasionally anastomosing; marginal nerves prominent, yellow, especially towards apex; gland 1, basal. Inflorescences simple; heads sessile, ±globular, 4–7 mm diam., subtended by a row of bract-like bracteoles, 15–25-flowered, golden; bracteoles unilaterally peltate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ¾ to completely united. Pods suberect, linear, ±raised over and ±constricted between seeds, straight to weakly curved, 2.5–7.5 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal to ±oblique, oval to elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 2–3.5 mm long, glossy, mottled; funicle/aril in 2 loose loops over apex of seed.
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