Trees 4–6 (–8) m high with pendulous branches. Bark hard, furrowed. Branchlets glabrous. Phyllodes pendulous, lax, narrowly linear, shallowly curved, 12–24 cm long, 1–3.5 mm wide, obtuse with small uncinate mucro overtopping small gland, glabrous, 3-veined with midrib the most prominent; basal gland near pulvinus. Inflorescences 1–3 per axil, 10–18-headed racemes; raceme axes 3–15 cm long, glabrous; peduncles 6–13 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 5 mm diam., 20–25-flowered, pale yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods narrowly oblong, slightly raised over and irregularly ±constricted between seeds, straight, to 14.5 cm long, 12–14 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, openly reticulate, glabrous. Seeds oblique, broadly elliptic, c. 6.5 mm long, dull dark brown, exarillate.
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