Dense shrub or tree 5–9 m high, sometimes 20–25 m high. Branchlets slender, angled at extremities, glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic, 3–6 cm long, 5–12 mm wide, l: w = 4–9, normally obtuse-mucronulate to subacute, thin, grey-green to glaucous, glabrous except pulvinus sparsely hairy, 1-veined per face, finely penninerved; gland prominent, normally exserted, 5–20 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes 1.5–6 cm long, slender, glabrous; peduncles 5–7 mm long, slender, glabrous; heads showy, globular, 7-16-flowered, lemon yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united; ovary glabrous. Pods stipitate, to 10 cm long, 9–12 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, pruinose, glabrous. Seeds mostly longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 5–6 mm long, ±shiny, black; aril clavate.
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