Shrub or tree 2–7 m tall, often suckering following fire. Bark dark grey to black, fissured. Branchlets angular at extremities, glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, shallowly to ±strongly falcate, (7–) 8–20 cm long, (7–) 10–28 (–35) mm wide, obtuse, glabrous, with 2 or 3 prominent longitudinal nerves (the third on broad phyllodes and not extending to apex) of which only lowermost reaches the apex; secondary nerves anastomosing in open reticulum; gland basal, with 1 or 2 additional glands on upper margin. Inflorescences in axillary racemes or terminal panicles; raceme axes 6.5–15 cm long, glabrous; peduncles 5–20 mm long; heads globular, 5–6 mm diameter, 40–62-flowered, white to cream or yellow. Flowers 5‑merous; sepals ½–⅔-united. Pods flat, to 13 cm long, 2–2.8 cm wide, thickly coriaceous to woody, openly reticulately nerved, glabrous. Seeds transverse, oblong-elliptic, 9–10 mm long, slightly shiny, dark brown; funicle fleshy and folded beneath aril.
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