Resinous shrub 0.5-2 m high. Branchlets terete, sparsely hairy. Phyllodes on short stem-projections, inequilaterally obtriangular-obovate to widely obovate-obdeltate, 2-5.5 mm long, 1.5-3.5 mm wide, rounded and excentrically thick-apiculate at apex, slightly thickened, sometimes obviously glandular-punctate, glabrous; midrib obscure or absent; lateral nerves normally absent; gland small, 1-2 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 4-7 mm long, slender, glabrous; basal bract persistent; heads globular, 12-15-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 1/4-1/2-united. Pods curved to subtortuous, 1-3.5 cm long, 2-3 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 3.5 mm long, slightly shiny, brown; aril galeiform, partially sheathing end of seed.
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