Shrub 0.5-2 m high. Bark 'Minni-Ritchi'. Branchlets with spreading hairs. Phyllodes patent to ascending, terete to flat and linear to linear-oblanceolate, shallowly to moderately incurved, 3.5-6 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, ±rigid, grey-green, glabrous or sparsely and loosely subappressed-pubescent, with 8 prominent nerves separated by deep furrows, 3-nerved per face when flat. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; heads sessile, subglobular to broadly ellipsoid, 5-8 mm long, 4.5-5 mm diam., 20-25-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 1/2-3/4-united. Pods narrowly oblong, strongly undulate, to 3 cm long, 4 mm wide, coriaceous, villous with light golden or white hairs and normally with minute red resin-hairs intermixed. Seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic to oblong-ovate, 2.5-3 mm long, glossy, dark brown-black and obscurely mottled yellow; funicle/aril fold at base of seed.
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