Shrub 1-2.5 m high. Bark 'Minni-Ritchi'. Branchlets flattened and angular at apex, glabrous or sparsely hairy on ribs, sometimes pruinose. Phyllodes linear or linear-oblanceolate, straight to ±curved, 4-13 cm long, 1-6 mm wide, abruptly contracted or tapered to ±curved, with acute to acuminate apex, flexible or semi-rigid, sometimes pruinose, glabrous or with few appressed hairs on nerves, with 3-7 distant raised nerves on each face. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles 3-8 mm long, sericeous; basal bract persistent; receptacle with dense spreading golden or silvery hairs; spikes 11-25 mm long, 5-6 mm diam., 50-97-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 2/3-3/4-united. Pods linear, straight to slightly curved, to 6 cm long, 5-6 mm wide, silvery or golden velvety. Seeds (of subsp. patulifolia ) oblique, broadly elliptic, 3-3.5 mm long, glossy, black; aril apical.
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