Diffuse intricate shrub 0.6-2 m high, glabrous or puberulous to hirtellous. Terminal branchlets occasionally coarsely spiny. Stipules subtending phyllode-clusters, to 4 mm long, ±spinose, often only bases persistent. Phyllodes in subnodose fascicles of up to 7, linear to linear-oblanceolate, infrequently subterete, 7-13 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, excentrically mucronulate at rounded or obliquely truncate (sometimes subuncinate) apex, obscurely 1-nerved per face; gland in ±basal half of phyllode. Inflorescences simple, 1-3 per axil; peduncles 1-2 cm long, glabrous or puberulous, sometimes bracteate in distal half; heads globular to shortly obloid, 25-55-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free or united near base. Pods narrowly oblong, to 6.5 cm long, 7-8 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, yellow-brown. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 5 mm long, dull, brown; aril slightly shiny.
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