Shrub to 3 m high. Branchlets terete, hispidulous and glandular-puberulous. Stipules persistent, 3.5–4 mm long, partially connate, with free portion linear-subulate. Phyllodes crowded, ascending, inequilaterally broadly elliptic or triangular, 4–8 mm long, 2–5 mm wide, acute, pungent, coriaceous, puberulous (some hairs gland-tipped), with 3 or 4 (or more) distant slightly raised nerves; gland 1 or 2, ± protruding from margin. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles (4–) 8–13 (–16) mm long, glandular-puberulous; heads ± globular, 8–10 mm diam., 30–40-flowered, golden; bracteoles exserted in buds, 3–4 mm long, pungent. Flowers with irregularly 5–11-lobed perianth; sepals ⅓–½-united; petals ⅔–¾-united; petal lobes 7 or 8; stamens partially united. Pods linear, slightly raised over seeds, straight to curved, to 8 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, crustaceous, obliquely venulose, glandular-puberulous or glandular-pilose. Seeds oblique, elliptic, ± 4 mm long; aril apical.
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