Shrub 0.5-2 m high. Branchlets ash-grey, glabrous. Phyllodes usually ascending to erect, variable, linear to narrowly oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate, flat to terete, 2-7 cm long, 1-8 mm wide, narrowed at base, ±pungent, subrigid, smooth, dull or somewhat shiny, green or glaucous, glabrous, 4-nerved in all, 1-nerved per face when flat; lateral nerves absent or obscure; gland 0-4 mm above pulvinus; pulvinus dilated at base. Inflorescences 1-or 2-headed racemes, enclosed when young by conspicuous brown imbricate bracts; raceme axis 1-3 mm long, growing out at anthesis; peduncles usually 4-10 mm long and glabrous; heads slightly obloid, 18-34-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united at base; petals with ±sparse brown to black appressed hairs. Pods ±moniliform, sometimes straight-edged, 4-9 cm long, 4-7 mm wide, thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic to ovate, c. 4 mm long, shiny, dark brown; aril thick.
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