Obconic shrub or small tree 3–6 m high. Bark ‘Minni Ritchi’, red to red-brown. Branchlets appressed hairy. Phyllodes linear to narrowly linear, (85–)100–150 (–185) mm long, 1.1–1.5 mm wide, flat (narrowly transversely elliptic to subterete or flat when young), normally straight to shallowly incurved, ascending to erect, not rigid, with short, appressed hairs between veins and longer, ascending hairs on veins and margins, pale green to grey-green, apices terminated by a short, hard, innocuous point; longitudinal nerves normally 5–8, conspicuous, subdistant, not anastomosing. Inflorescences simple; spikes 15–25 mm long; peduncles 3–9 mm long, with dense, appressed, yellow-gold hairs. Flowers 5-merous; calyx gamosepalous, dissected for c. ⅓–¼ its length. Pods linear to narrowly oblong, 40–110 mm long, 2.4–4 mm wide, coriaceous to subwoody, straight to moderately curved, flat, resinous (especially when young), densely lanate by golden brown hairs. Seeds longitudinal, ovate to elliptic, 3–4.5 mm long, pleurogram prominent and encircling raised areole, arillate.
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