Shrub to 1.5 m high. Branchlets pubescent with fine spreading to erect or retrorse white hairs, viscid. Stipules 2-3 mm long, glabrous, occasionally with tuft of hairs near base. Phyllodes in whorls of 10-15, spreading, flattened, straight or ±incurved in lower half and recurved at apex, 8-15 mm long, with erect or antrorse hairs and an impressed nerve above, obscurely ribbed when dry; mucro 0.4-1.2 mm long. Peduncles 5-20 mm long, sparsely hairy. Heads 20-35-flowered. Flowers 5-or 6-merous; calyx narrowly obconical, 0.9-1.5 mm long, ribbed; calyx lobes incurved, linear, thick, glabrous or with hairy margins; corolla lobes striate, hairy. Pods sessile, straight, 35-70 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, glabrous; margins slightly thickened. Seeds longitudinal, c. 3 mm long; pleurogram open.