Shrub 0.6-2 m high. Branchlets slightly angled apically, sparsely appressed-puberulous or glabrous. Stipules caducous, subulate, 1-1.5 mm long. Phyllodes ascending, narrowly oblanceolate, straight to slightly incurved, 1.5-3 cm long, mostly 2-5 mm wide, obtuse, mucronulate, glabrous, 2-nerved per face; adaxial margin with 2 nerves for 1/4-1/2 length of phyllode; nerves coalescing near the gland. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles 7-11 mm long, glabrous; basal bract caducous, cucullate, rostriform, glabrous; heads globular, 3.5-4 mm diam., 20-flowered, golden; bracteoles spathulate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, spathulate. Pods linear, undulate, to 4.5 cm long, 4-4.5 mm wide, coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, widely elliptic, 3 mm long, dull, obscurely mottled brown; aril subterminal.
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