Intricate sprawling or compact shrub normally 0.3-0.6 m high, glabrous. Branchlets pruinose. Stipules spinose, 2-4 mm long, shallowly recurved. Phyllodes dimidiate, broadest near or below the middle, with adaxial margin conspicuously rounded with its proximal edge frequently ±parallel to the branchlet, 8-15 mm long, normally 6-11 mm wide, acuminate, pungent, coriaceous, green or subglaucous; midrib near abaxial margin. Inflorescences simple, normally 1 per axil; peduncles 5-10 mm long; heads globular, rather loosely 7-or 8-flowered, golden; buds 3-3.5 mm long, acute. Flowers 4-merous; sepals 1/6 length of petals, c. 3/4-united, with lobes rounded to broadly triangular, brown; petals finely striate. Pods terete, normally to 7 cm long and 4 mm diam., coriaceous-crustaceous, shallowly curved, red-brown, finely longitudinally striate. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 4-5 mm long, dark brown; aril terminal, conical.
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