Shrub or tree to 4 m high, multistemmed, pruinose. Bark fibrous, dark grey. Branchlets terete except near apices, light brown, glabrous. Phyllodes semilunate, flat, straight or slightly curved, 1.5–4 (–5.5) cm long, (6–) 15–22 mm wide, coriaceous, glabrous, with 2–5 ±indistinct main veins; minor veins 6–8 per mm, fine, strongly anastomosing; gland 1, basal, to 1 mm above pulvinus. Spikes 3–4.5 cm long, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, 0.5–0.7 mm long, pubescent in lower half; corolla 1–1.2 mm long, dissected to ½ of their length, glabrous; ovary glabrous. Pods narrowly oblong, curved, 3.5–4.5 cm long, thickly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds oblique, c. 3 mm long, black; pleurogram with halo present; areole open, pale; aril terminal.
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