Intricately branched, multistemmed shrub 1–2 m tall. Branchlets verruculose-ribbed by tubercle-based often caducous hairs, pilose mainly on the ribs. New shoots maroon red or dull brown tinged maroon. Stipules 2–4 mm long, often only the thickened, indurate bases persisting at mature nodes. Phyllodes rather wide spreading, mostly narrowly oblong to oblong-elliptic, the tip innocuous or coarsely pungent, shallowly to markedly recurved but sometimes with few straight and dimidiate, coriaceous, (20–) 25–45 mm long, (4–) 6–10 mm wide, subglaucous (?aging green); midrib prominent, yellowish, glabrescent; lateral nerves obscure; marginal nerve prominent, yellow, verruculose as on branchlets; gland seemingly absent; pulvinus vestigial. Inflorescences initiated on expanding new shoots, simple or rudimentary 1–2-headed racemes 1–2 (–6) mm long; peduncles 10–18 mm long, glabrous, red; heads globular, densely 26–50 flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ± free, 0.5–0.7 mm long, c. ⅕ length of petals; petals tinged dark brown at apex, nerveless, glabrous. Pods and seeds not seen.
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