Spindly, open, sparingly branched shrub 1-3 (-5) m high, glabrous, somewhat viscid. Branchlets roughened by obvious stem-projections where phyllodes have fallen. Stipules setaceous, 2.5-4.5 mm long. Phyllodes crowded, patent to erect, linear, straight to shallowly curved, flat or (when dry) ±quadrangular, 1-3 cm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, obliquely and excentrically mucronate, slightly thickened, green; midrib and abaxial nerves resinous (resin often in beads); gland basal. Inflorescences comprising terminal false racemes which grow out at anthesis; peduncles 2-3 cm long, normally subtended by immature phyllodes, ebracteate at base; heads globular, densely 65-75-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united at base. Pods narrowly oblong, 2.5-5 cm long, 7-11 mm wide, ±crustaceous, roughened by prominent brown excrescences. Seeds transverse to oblique, oblong to widely elliptic, 4-5 mm long, arillate.
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