Bushy, spreading shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets angled apically, soon terete and ribbed, glabrous. New shoots glabrous. Stipules 2–4 (–5) mm long, brittle. Phyllodes mostly oblanceolate, straight to shallowly incurved, (1.2–) 1.4–4.5 (–7.2) cm long, (2–) 3–9 (–15) mm wide, narrowed at apex to a small, straight to hooked, innocuous to coarsely pungent point, coriaceous, glabrous, green to grey-green, 1-veined per face; gland normally single, occasionally absent or 2, (2–) 5–16 (–20) mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple and commonly 2 per axil, sometimes rudimentary 1-or 2-headed racemes with axes to 1 mm long; peduncles (2–) 4–10 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 4–5 mm diam. (dry), (16–) 20–34 (–36)-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods ± terete, not or scarcely constricted between the seeds, strongly curved, to 7 cm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly crustaceous, black. Seeds longitudinal, 3–4 mm long; aril terminal, conical, creamy white.
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