Bushy shrub 1-3 m high, glabrous, resinous. Phyllodes narrowly linear, usually 6-10 cm long and 1-3.5 mm wide with l:w = 20-100, narrowed at base, thin, green, sparsely tuberculate; midrib not prominent; lateral nerves obscure, openly longitudinally anastomosing and some ±parallel to midrib; gland circular to oblong-elliptic, 0.2-0.5 mm long, 1-2 mm above pulvinus, with a smaller gland at base of mucro. Inflorescences simple, initiated on new shoots, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 6-20 mm long, slender, ebracteate at base; heads globular, densely 35-50-flowered, bright light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 3/4-5/6-united. Pods narrowly oblong, flat, raised over seeds alternately on each side, to 6 cm long, c. 1 cm wide, chartaceous. Seeds transverse to slightly oblique, oblong to elliptic, 4-4.5 mm long; funicle and aril membranous, creamy white.
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A small bushy shrub. It grows 1-3 m high. It secretes resin. The phyllodes are narrow and 6-10 cm long by 1-4 mm wide. They are soft and flexible and dull green. The flowers are yellow. The pods are narrowly oblong and flat but raised over the seeds. The seeds are 4-5 mm long and brown.
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