Dense domed shrub 0.5-1.8 m high, to 3 m diam. Branchlets white-waxy, ±pilose or appressed-pilose. Phyllodes obliquely orbicular to obliquely obdeltate, with upper margin conspicuously rounded and distally sinuate to sinuate-dentate, commonly 8-20 mm long, 6-15 mm wide, mucronulate, appressed-puberulous marginally at least when young, with 2 fine divergent longitudinal nerves per face; lateral nerves few or absent. Inflorescences simple or sometimes short racemes and sometimes growing out at anthesis; raceme axes to 4 mm long; peduncles 10-26 mm long, ±puberulous to pilose; heads globular, 5.5-7.5 mm diam., 20-32-flowered, usually white to cream. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods (immature) constricted between the longitudinal seeds and raised over them, 1-2-coiled, often twisted, to 2 cm long (unexpanded), 3-4 mm wide.
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