Diffuse shrub to c. 1 m high. New shoots minutely woolly. Branchlets ±spinose, minutely woolly, glabrescent. Stipules caducous but obvious on young new shoots, joined nearly to apex. Phyllodes patent to erect with some usually reflexed, usually acicular and terete to subterete, compressed to flat when dry, 7-25 mm long, usually 0.6-1.3 mm wide, pungent, rigid, green, with indumentum as on branchlets, usually 5-nerved with the 2 adaxial nerves coalescing 0.5-4.5 mm above pulvinus, 1-or 3-nerved per face when flat; pulvinus short but distinct. Inflorescences rudimentary 1-headed racemes with axes > 0.5 mm long; peduncles 0-3 mm long; heads globular, 18-24-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, variably minutely woolly. Pods linear, to 5 cm long, 3.5-5 mm wide, crustaceous, minutely woolly; margins thick. Seeds longitudinal to oblique, normally broadly elliptic, c. 2.5 mm long, turgid, narrowed at periphery, mottled; aril small.
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