Spreading shrub mostly 0.3-0.6 m high. Branchlets terete, tomentulose, occasionally appressed-puberulous. Phyllodes mostly shallowly to strongly incurved but sometimes a few ±straight, terete, mostly 1.5-2.5 cm long, 1.2-1.75 mm diam., rounded-obtuse, often minutely mucronulate, normally thick, usually glabrous, strongly striate by 12-16 fine, raised nerves. Inflorescences simple; heads sessile, globular, 3.5-4 mm diam., 9-14-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 2/3-3/4-united. Pods linear, strongly curved, becoming 1-or 2-coiled after dehiscence, biconvex, 2-4 cm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, coriaceous, glabrous except puberulous basally or generally puberulous. Seeds longitudinal, quadrate-rotund, 1.5-1.8 mm long, glossy, mottled shades of tan; aril nearly as long as seed.
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