Dense spreading shrub, 0.5-3 m high. Branchlets glabrous or puberulous. Phyllodes horizontally flattened, narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, 1-2 cm long, 1.5-4.5 mm wide, obtuse, thick, fleshy, longitudinally wrinkled and commonly partially involute (dry), green to yellow-green, glabrous; marginal nerves distinct and yellow, with other nerves obscure or absent; gland on upper surface above middle of phyllode. Inflorescences mostly 1-headed with raceme axes 0.5-2 mm long; peduncles 5-15 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 5-6 mm diam., subdense, 9-15-flowered, golden; bracteoles absent. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united into a ±truncate calyx. Pods narrowly oblong, slightly raised over and slightly constricted between seeds, to 4 cm long, 4-4.5 mm wide, crustaceous-coriaceous, brown, finely longitudinally reticulate, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, c. 4 mm long, shiny, dark brown; aril white (drying yellowish).
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