Subshrub, prostrate or semiprostrate, with numerous small branches arising from subterranean rootstock. Branchlets ± angular, virgate, green and lenticellate between brown (usually resin-crenulated) ridges, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Phyllodes linear, straight, 4–15 cm long, 0.8–3 mm wide, flat, slightly resinous, with 1 or 2 excentric more prominent longitudinal veins; minor nerves parallel, not regularly conspicuous; basal gland inconspicuous. Spikes 4–12 mm long, densely flowered, shortly cylindrical to ± obloid, yellow. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.8–1.3 mm long, dissected to 1/4–1/3; sepals thick, with distinct midrib, fimbriolate and sparsely pilose; corolla 1.7–2 mm long, dissected to ± 1/2, with prominent midrib, glabrous, viscid; ovary glabrous or with tomentum near apex. Pods linear, almost flat, ± straight, slightly curved at apex, 4–5.5 cm long, 3.5–4.5 mm wide, tapered at base and apex, light brown. Seeds ± oblique, elliptic, dorsiventrally flattened, c. 4.2 mm long, very dark brown; pleurogram surrounded by slightly paler halo; funicle scarcely folded, pale.
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