Multi-stemmed shrub 2–3 (–5) m high and 3–6 (–8) m wide, main stems rather contorted. Bark dark grey. Branchlets normally glabrous. New shoots resinous, brown, young phyllodes silvery sericeous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, (3–) 4–8 cm long, 8–20 mm wide, apices acute to obtuse and innocuous, straight, often slightly twisted or undulate; multi-striate by numerous, very fine, parallel, non-anastomosing veins 5–10 per mm; marginal vein discrete, light yellow aging light brown, sometimes scurfy white; gland basal. Inflorescences simple; peduncles 2–4 mm long; spikes 10–20 mm long; bracteoles 1–1.5 mm long, with linear claws and short, distinct, ±thickened laminae. Flowers 5-merous, ±resinous; sepals ±free, similar to bracteoles except laminae smaller. Pods narrowly oblong, 5.5–7.5 cm long, 8–11 mm wide, firmly crustaceous to ±woody, shiny, normally glabrous; margins with a vertical flange 2–4 mm wide. Seeds oblique, 4.5–5 mm long, dark brown except yellowish bordering pleurogram; aril white to cream aril.
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