Dwarf subshrub 0.3-0.5 m high, glabrous. Branchlets prominently ribbed. Stipules shallowly triangular, c. 0.5 mm long. Phyllodes crowded, erect, elliptic to obovate, 20-30 mm long, 9-13 mm wide, obtuse, thin, green, 1-nerved or imperfectly 2-nerved; lateral nerves few and obscure; gland not prominent, 4-7 mm above base. Inflorescences simple, mostly 1 per axil; peduncles 4-7 mm long; heads globular, 3-or 4-flowered, white, drying orange; buds ±4-angled. Flowers 4-merous, large; sepals 1/5 length of corolla, united into a truncate to sinuolately lobed calyx. Pods retrorse by a strongly recurved stipe, narrowly oblong, acute, to 30 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, crustaceous; margins thick. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 4-5 mm long, shiny, dark brown, arillate.
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