Diffuse shrub to 1 m high. Branches wiry and often prostrate (not dividing into short, divaricate branchlets), sometimes coarsely pungent, minutely verruculose at least at extremities, glabrous or hispidulous. Phyllodes oblong-elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic, sometimes lanceolate or ± circular, 1–2 cm long, 5–10 mm wide, l: w = 1.5–3, inequilateral at base, ± undulate, acute to obtuse and excentrically ± apiculate, sometimes coarsely pungent, sometimes subglaucous, glabrous or hirtellous with hairs often tubercle-based and confined to margins, 1-veined per face; lateral veins obscure. Inflorescences mostly simple and within axils of immature phyllodes at ends of branches; peduncles 5–13 mm long, glabrous or subglabrous; heads globular, c. 25-flowered, golden. Flowers normally 5-merous; sepals free, linear-spathulate. Pods narrowly oblong, shallowly arcuate, raised over but scarcely constricted between seeds, to 6 cm long and 6 mm wide, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, c. 6 mm long, arillate.
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