Intricate shrub to 1.3 m high. Branchlets glabrous. Phyllodes continuous with branchlets, bifariously decurrent and forming opposite wings with each one extending to the next below; wings 2-6 mm wide, coriaceous, subglaucous, glabrous, with marginal nerve prominent; free portion of phyllodes erect, lanceolate to narrowly triangular, straight or very shallowly incurved, 1-5.5 cm long, with main nerve central; gland basal. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes 1-10 cm long, normally narrowly winged at anthesis; peduncles 10-15 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 10-15 mm diam. at anthesis (dry), densely 60-70-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ±free, linear-spathulate. Pods linear, to 12 cm long, 4-5 mm wide, coriaceous-crustaceous, ±pruinose, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 4.5-5 mm long; aril subconical.
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