Bushy shrub or small tree 2-3 m high. Branchlets terete, glabrous. Phyllodes erect, straight to shallowly incurved, often ±bent at gland, terete, mostly 8-12 cm long, 1-1.5 mm diam., pungent, rigid, subglaucous, glabrous, with 8 distant strongly raised nerves. Inflorescences (judging from very young buds) simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 5-10 mm long (in fruit), glabrous. Heads (judging from fruiting receptacles) broadly ellipsoid to obloid. Pods moniliform, shallowly curved, to 13.5 cm long, 4-6 mm wide, chartaceous, light brown, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, globular, equatorially ridged, umbonate at apex, ±5 mm diam., dull, brown; aril minute.
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