Shrub or tree 2-4 m high, usually wispy or straggly. Branchlets often ±arching or pendulous, ±pruinose. Phyllodes often pendulous, linear to linear-elliptic, straight to curved, 10-20 cm long, 4-10 mm wide, tapering to pulvinus, acute to acuminate, coriaceous, grey-green to subglaucous, glabrous; nerves numerous, fine, subdistant, rarely anastomosing; midnerve most evident; marginal nerves yellow or yellowish, prominent; pulvinus 3-6 mm long. Inflorescences 1-4-headed racemes; raceme axes usually 2-8 mm long (rarely to 45 mm), pruinose, glabrous; peduncles 6-20 mm long, glabrous; spikes 12-23 mm long, 6-7.5 mm diam., golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united, puberulous. Pods linear, slightly raised over seeds, curved, c. 7 cm long and 5-6 mm wide, coriaceous, pruinose, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, subdiscoid, compressed, 4-4.5 mm long, glossy, dark brown; pleurogram shortly U-shaped or nearly semicircular; funicle-aril short, thick.
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