Erect to semi-prostrate shrub 0.4–3 m high. Branchlets striate, tomentose-villous. Stipules persistent, free, linear-lanceolate, arcuate. Phyllodes sessile, patent, inequilaterally broadly obdeltate, straight, 4–15 mm long, 4–15 mm wide, acute to acuminate with straight or recurved tip, mucronate, pungent, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, glabrous or sparingly tomentose-villous, glabrescent, with 2–4 distant raised veins; marginal veins prominent, yellow. Inflorescences simple; peduncles 6–20 mm long, ± tomentose-villous, often with ± median bract; heads globular to occasionally obloid, 5–6 mm diam., to 8 mm long, 30-flowered, golden, scented; bracteoles not exserted. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united into a 5-lobed calyx. Pods linear, raised over and ± constricted between seeds, straight, to 14 cm long, 3–6 mm wide, crustaceous, sparsely to moderately crispate-puberulous. Seeds longitudinal, ± oblong, 5–7.5 mm long, glossy, brown-black; aril terminal.
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