Rounded shrub 0.3-1 m high. Branchlets terete, ±nerveless, puberulous or appressed-puberulous, sometimes glabrescent. Stipules ±persistent, 1-2 mm long. Phyllodes commonly widely spreading, ±irregularly and shallowly to strongly curved or sigmoid, terete to almost flat, 3.5-7 cm long, 1-2 mm diam., commonly with curved-mucronate to subuncinate tip, puberulous or glabrous, with 8 distant strongly raised nerves with distinct furrows between, 3-nerved per face when ±flat; gland 2-6 mm above pulvinus; pulvinus ±smooth and slightly flared at base. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles 2-6 mm long, puberulous to glabrous; heads globular, 3.5-4 mm diam., 15-22-flowered, golden; bracteoles slightly exserted in buds. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear to submoniliform, raised over seeds, curved, to 8 cm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, subglossy, sparsely puberulous or glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic, 2.5 mm long, dull, brown, often obscurely mottled; aril crested.
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