Much-branched often straggly shrub to 1.3 m high, glabrous. Ultimate branchlets patent to ascending, short, rigid, straight, somewhat spinose, commonly lightly pruinose. Phyllodes ± sessile, dimidiate, with adaxial margin conspicuously rounded with its proximal edge ± parallel to branchlet and its distal edge variably crenulate-erose, 5–10 mm long, 3–10 mm wide, pungent with a 1.5–3 mm long cusp, glaucous to subglaucous; midrib near lower margin; minor veins normally branched and running into adaxial margin. Inflorescences rudimentary 1-headed racemes with axes to 0.5 mm long; peduncles 4–7 mm long; basal bracts 2, variably persistent; heads globular, 18–22-flowered, golden; bracteoles obtuse, overtopping flowers in buds. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. 2/3-united. Pods narrowly oblong, to 4 cm long, 4–6 mm wide, undulate. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic, c. 3 mm long, mottled; aril waxy dull yellow.
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