Spreading open subshrub 0.2-0.4 m high. Stems slender, dark grey. Branchlets densely pubescent. Stipules setaceous, 5-7 mm long, recurved. Phyllodes crowded, linear, 11-17 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, narrowed at base, excentrically rostellate, dark green, glabrous but pulvinus pubescent adaxially; midrib near abaxial margin and prominently raised; adaxial margin 2-nerved, thick and nerve-like. Inflorescences rudimentary, 1-headed racemes with axes > 0.5 mm long; peduncles 8-13 mm long, glabrous, recurved in fruit; basal bract cucullate-navicular; heads globular, 2.5-3 mm diam., 12-16-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods subterete, 10-15 mm long, thinly crustaceous, blackish. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic to ovate, 2-2.5 mm long, c. 1.5 mm wide, shiny, dark brown; aril pileiform.
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