Spreading much-branched shrub 0.5-1.8 m high. Branchlets hairy, with grey-white epidermis fissured with age. Stipules spinose, 2-4 mm long, normally straight, sometimes only hardened bases persisting. Phyllodes ±patent, ovate or widely ovate to elliptic or widely elliptic, commonly 1.5-2.5 cm long and 7-15 mm wide, l:w = 1.5-2.5, slightly undulate, pungent with slender cusp, coriaceous, slightly shiny, dark green, glabrous or sometimes midrib and margins tuberculate-hairy, puncticulate, with prominent midrib, finely penninerved. Inflorescences initiated on new shoots; peduncles normally 1 per axil, with subtending phyllodes often not mature at anthesis, normally 10-20 mm long, hairy; bract often near or above middle; heads globular to obloid, golden, 35-60-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods circinate, 4.5-5.5 mm wide, coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, ±oblong, 3.5 mm long, ±dull, brown to blackish, arillate.
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