Shrub or tree to 5 m high. Branchlets moderately to densely appressed-puberulous with straight silvery-white hairs. New shoots light golden appressed-puberulous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic, oblanceolate or narrowly oblong to ±linear, 4–10 cm long, 3–8 mm wide, acute or obtuse-mucronate, thin, moderately to densely appressed-puberulous with silvery white hairs, 1-veined per face; lateral veins obscure; gland not prominent, 1–2.5 cm above pulvinus. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes 2–6 cm long, appressed-puberulous with predominantly light golden hairs; heads globular, 15–20-flowered, bright lemon yellow to golden; peduncles 2–5 mm long, appressed-puberulous with silvery white to light golden hairs. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. 2/3-united; ovary glabrous. Pods to 8 cm long, 8–10 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, pruinose, glabrous, dehiscing unilaterally. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic to slightly ovate, 4–5 mm long, slightly shiny, black; aril clavate.
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