Shrub either compact and intricate or sprawling and diffuse, to 1.5 m high and 3.5 m across. Branches reddish orange. Branchlets densely retrorsely hirsutellous-pubescent. Stipules ±setaceous, 2.5-3.5 mm long. Phyllodes patent, inequilaterally lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, sometimes narrowly linear, usually 9-14 mm long and 1.2-2 mm wide, pungent, rigid, green, normally glabrous, 5-nerved, with the 2-nerved adaxial margin usually convex, thick and nerve-like; midrib prominent, near the non-thickened abaxial margin. Inflorescences simple, normally 1 per axil; peduncles usually 5-9 mm long, glabrous or hirsutellous; heads globular, rather loosely 8-12-flowered, golden. Flowers 4-merous; sepals 1/2-2/3-united; petals puberulous, ±nerveless. Pods shallowly curved, terete, to 6 cm long and 4.5 mm diam., coriaceous, red-brown, obscurely striate, puberulous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 5.5 mm long; aril terminal, conical.
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