Shrub to c. 1 m high, erect, viscid. Branchlets loosely tomentose with white hairs to c. 0.5 mm long. Stipules linear-subulate, 1.5-2 mm long, incurved, yellowish. Phyllodes 15-20 per whorl, erect to spreading with recurved to uncinate tip, linear, 2-7 mm long, thick, setose, glabrous; mucro excentric, spreading to recurved, 2.5-3 mm long. Peduncles 14-22 mm long, pilose with spreading white hairs. Heads c. 30-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 1.5 mm long, glabrous; calyx lobes short, broad, obtuse, striate; corolla 2.5 mm long, scarcely striate, glabrous. Pods sessile or almost so, linear, flat but raised over seeds, gently curved, 3-7.5 cm long, 5-6.5 mm wide, brown, glabrous; margin thickened. Seeds 5-9 per pod, longitudinal, ovoid-obovoid with oblique apex, 5-6 mm long, 4-6 mm wide, shining, black; pleurogram closed.
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