Tree or shrub 2–5 (–6) m high, canopy often spreading. Bark hard, grey, shallowly rimose. New shoots sericeous, grey. Branchlets sericeous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to narrowly dimidiate, straight, 10–15 cm long, 1–2.5 cm wide, coriaceous, sericeous, grey-green; longitudinal veins numerous and close together (6–8 per mm), moderately longitudinally anastomosing, with 3 main longitudinal veins slightly more prominent than the others; pulvinus 5–7 mm long, sericeous. Inflorescences simple (1–3 per axil) or occasionally racemose, raceme axes 0.2–5 cm long and sericeous; peduncles 2–5 mm long, sericeous; spikes 2–5 cm long, flowers densely arranged, yellow to light golden; receptacles glabrous. Flowers 5-merous; calyx deeply dissected, densely pubescent; ovary sericeous. Pods narrowly oblong, subterete to slightly flattened, sometimes slightly constricted between the seeds, straight to slightly curved, 4–7 cm long, 6–8 mm wide, woody, sericeous, longitudinally wrinkled or grooved. Seeds oblique, elliptic to irregularly elliptic, c. 4 mm long, c. 3 mm wide, glossy, black; funicle/aril twice-folded, cream.
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