Shrub 0.3-1 m high, normally rounded, densely branching. Branchlets glabrous, occasionally appressed-puberulous. Phyllodes ascending to erect, linear or obovate to oblanceolate-oblong, substraight to shallowly incurved, terete to flat, 10-30 mm long, 1-7.5 mm wide, rounded-obtuse, ±fleshy, smooth (fresh), finely to coarsely wrinkled when dry, glabrous, 1-3 (-5) nerves per face (when flat), or 6-8-nerved (when terete). Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles mostly 5-10 mm long, glabrous, occasionally sparsely appressed-puberulous; basal bract often persistent, ±ovate; heads globular, 3-6 mm diam. (dry), subdensely 10-17-flowered, golden, resinous; buds subacute to apiculate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 2/3-3/4-united; petals prominently 1-nerved. Pods narrowly oblong to linear, slightly curved, biconvex to flat, to 4 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, coriaceous to crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, widely elliptic to elliptic, 2.5-3.5 mm long, mottled; aril apical.
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