Spreading shrub 1–1.5 m tall. Branchlets glabrous. Phyllodes ascending to erect, linear, narrowed at base, straight to shallowly incurved, flat, mostly 5–10 cm long, (1.5–) 2–4 (–5) mm wide, ±subrigid, finely longitudinally sulcate when dry, obtuse-mucronate with ±pungent point, glabrous; midrib slightly impressed when dry; gland 4–10 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple or rudimentary 1-headed racemes with axes c. 1 mm long, 1–3 per axil; peduncles 5–11 mm long, glabrous, basal bract persistent; flower-heads golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, linear-spathulate. Pods linear, straight-edged to slightly constricted between the seeds, to 7 cm long, 2.5–4 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, dark reddish brown, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 3–3.5 mm long, mottled black and dull yellow, ±exarillate.
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