Spreading, bushy shrub 2–3 m high. Branchlets dark red-brown, glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 2–5.5 cm long, 4–10 mm wide, acute to acuminate, thinly coriaceous, pale green to glaucous, glabrous; midrib slightly excentric; lateral veins obscure; gland not prominent, 10–16 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences racemose, with raceme axes 5–30 mm long, glabrous; peduncles 3–7 mm long, slender, glabrous; heads globular, rather loosely 8–15-flowered, light golden; buds often subacute. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united to near their apices. Pods broadly linear to narrowly oblong, to 13 cm long, 8–9 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 5–6 mm long, slightly shiny, black; funicle encircling seed in a double fold, convoluted, brittle, dark reddish; aril clavate.
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