Shrub to 3.5 m high. Bark smooth, grey. Branchlets angular, rather coarse, minutely tomentose. Phyllodes obliquely elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 7–13 cm long, 20–55 mm wide, broadly rounded apically and apiculate, thick, scurfy, minutely tomentose or sometimes glabrous, with 3–5 prominent main veins (the lower 2 often confluent with each other almost at base); minor veins 3 or 4 per mm, strongly anastomosing, with interstices ± narrowly oblong; gland 1, basal, to 1 mm above pulvinus. Spikes 3–4 cm long. Flowers 5-merous; calyx c. 1 mm long, cupular, slightly lobed, slightly pubescent except lobes; corolla c. 1.4 mm long, dissected to ½, later free, papillose on margins; ovary densely pubescent. Pods linear, raised over and shallowly constricted between seeds, curved, 5–6 cm long, puberulous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to subglobular, 3.5–4.5 mm long, black.
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