Shrub 0.5-2.5 m high, dense, domed, spreading. Branchlets glabrous or sparsely and minutely subappressed-hirsutellous with pale yellow hairs, very resinous when young. Stipules 0.5-1.5 mm long. Phyllodes inequilaterally narrow-elliptic (upper margin the more curved), subfalcate, rarely straight, 2.5-4 cm long, 4-8 mm wide, acute, dark green to dull grey-green, normally glabrous, with 5-10 longitudinal resinous nerves, anastomoses few; gland inconspicuous, basal. Inflorescences simple in axillary pairs or more commonly 1-or 2-headed rudimentary racemes; raceme axes 0.5-1 mm long and growing out at anthesis; peduncles 5-8 mm long, glabrous or hirsutellous with golden or white ±appressed hairs, resinous; heads globular, 4.5-5 mm diam., 18-25-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous, resinous; sepals 1/2-3/4-united. Pods linear, to 6 cm long, 2-3 mm wide, thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, resinous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, obloid, 3.5-4 mm long, dark brown; aril terminal.
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