Shrub 2–3 m high, wispy. New shoots resinous. Branchlets pendulous, flexuose, minutely sericeous between ribs or glabrous. Phyllodes widely spreading, coarsely filiform, incurved, ± cruciate in section, 9–15 cm long, 1–2 mm diam., innocuous, glabrous, with 4 rib-like broad yellowish veins separated by deep ± glaucous furrows. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 5–11 mm long, glabrous, resinous; heads globular, 7–8 mm diam., subdensely 25–31-flowered, bright golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ⅚-united. Pods linear, slightly raised over and constricted between seeds, straight to slightly curved, ± terete, to 11.5 cm long, ± 2 mm diam., firm-chartaceous, appressed-puberulous except broad margins glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 3–5 mm long, glossy, mottled light and dark tan; aril white.
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