Shrub 3–4 m high, bushy, rounded to ± obconic, glabrous. Branchlets resin-ribbed, angled towards apices. Phyllodes slightly asymmetric, narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic or ± oblanceolate, 2–4 cm long, 4.5–8.5 mm wide, obtuse, thin, subglaucous, variably resinous with resin drying meally white over nerves, mostly 2-veined per face, with minor veins openly longitudinally anastomosing; glands 2–5, not prominent. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 5–15 mm long; spikes 2–3 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, linear-spathulate. Pods narrowly oblong to linear, narrowed at base, to 8 cm long, 5–6 mm wide, woody, red-brown, obliquely longitudinally veined, resinous, dehiscing elastically from apex; margins narrowly winged and rendering pod quadrangular in section especially when young with wing 2–3 mm wide. Seeds oblique, oblong, c. 4.5 mm long, somewhat shiny, greyish brown; funicle/aril narrowly turbinate.
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