Shrub 0.4-1 m high. Branchlet indumentum various. Phyllodes somewhat crowded, inequilateral, ±obdeltate to shallowly triangular with a prominent gland-bearing angle on adaxial margin, with adaxial proximal margin convex and ±contiguous with branchlet, 5-10 mm long, 5-11 mm wide, ±undulate, pungent, rigid, glabrous or puberulous; midrib near abaxial margin, with a minor nerve extending from base towards gland. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 7-12 mm long, glabrous or puberulous; heads globular, 4-6-flowered, creamy white; buds acute. Flowers 4-merous; sepals 2/3-3/4-united, with lobes broadly triangular; petals glabrous, 3-7-nerved at apices. Pods ±curved, often twisted, to 7 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, crustaceous, glabrous or puberulous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 2.5-4 mm long, glossy, brown to ±black; aril terminal.
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