Dense, rounded shrub to c. 1.5 m high and c. 3 m diam., resinous, glabrous. Branchlets aromatic when crushed. Phyllodes crowded, sometimes on raised stem-projections, ascending to erect, ±oblong to asymmetrically cuneate, recurved at least at apex, terete to flat, 2-5 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, l:w = 2-5, obliquely narrowed to a distinct acute point, thick, green, nerveless, medially sulcate when dry; pulvinus present or absent. Inflorescences simple, 1 in upper axils; peduncles 1-7 mm long, somewhat stout; heads globular, 20-26-flowered, light golden to mid-golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods linear, flat, to 5 cm long, 4.5-5.5 mm wide, crustaceous to coriaceous, openly reticulate. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 3.5-5 mm long, brown-black mottled yellow; aril thick.
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