Spreading shrub 0.2–2 (–3) m high. Branchlets sometimes pruinose apically, glabrous, appressed-puberulous or minutely pilose. Phyllodes straight to shallowly incurved, terete, laterally compressed or plano-convexly depressed, 5–25 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, obtuse to acute, sometimes subpungent or uncinate-mucronulate, glabrous, with 6 or 7 prominent veins in all, 2-veined per face when compressed, 3-veined on lower surface when planoconvex; gland at or above junction of adaxial nerves or on undivided central nerve, occasionally absent. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 4–15 mm long, glabrous, puberulous or appressed-puberulous; basal bract cucullate, rostriform; heads globular, 3–4 mm diam., 10–15-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ±free. Pods linear, undulate, to 3.5 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, thin-coriaceous or chartaceous, sometimes pruinose, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, widely elliptic to ovate, 1.5–3 mm long, subglossy, commonly mottled grey and black or brown; aril subterminal.
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