Dense rounded or flat-topped shrub 0.5–2 m high, often wider than high. Branchlets glabrous to hairy. New shoots often resinous. Stipules subpersistent to caducous. Phyllodes ascending to erect, linear to linear-oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, straight to shallowly incurved, rarely terete to subterete, (1–) 2–4.5 (–6) cm long, 1–4 (–5) mm wide, thick, coriaceous, glabrous or hairy, 8-or more-veined in all, 3-or more-veined per face when flat; veins impressed or raised, with anastomoses absent. Inflorescences simple, mostly 2 per axil; peduncles 2–5 mm long, glabrous or hairy; basal bract caducous or subpersistent, cucullate; heads globular, 3–4 mm diam., 12–20-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, curved to openly and somewhat irregularly coiled or twisted, to 6 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, glabrous or hairy. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to oblong-ovate; aril apical.
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