Bushy much-branched shrub to 2 (–4) m high. Branchlets glabrous to puberulous-hirsutellous, ± resinous and angled at extremities. Phyllodes frequently subcrowded, ascending to erect, infrequently patent, slender, straight to shallowly incurved, ± terete or more commonly subterete to flat, 20–45 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, obliquely and excentrically mucronulate, glabrous or subglabrous, veinless or with 1 (central) or 2 obscure veins on each face; gland basal, minute, sometimes absent, with a similar gland sometimes adjacent to the mucro. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 2–6 mm long, glabrous to puberulous-hirsutellous; heads globular, 20–34-flowered, bright golden, resinous when young. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united to near apex. Pods linear, to 7 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to very thinly coriaceous, dark brown, glabrous, slightly resinous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 3.5–4 mm long; aril oblique.
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