Dense rounded shrub, 1–3 m high, 1.5-5 m wide. Branchlets densely puberulous. Phyllodes elliptic to narrowly elliptic, mostly 2–4 cm long and 8–20 mm wide, l: w = 2-4, commonly obtuse, ± thin, dark green or subglaucous, appressed-puberulous on margins and veins when young, ageing glabrous except sometimes sparsely hairy near base, 1-or 2-veined, with lateral veins obscure; glands not prominent, normally 6–10 mm above pulvinus, and at base of mucro; pulvinus puberulous. Inflorescences 3–5-headed racemes; raceme axes 10–25 mm long, puberulous, commonly growing out; peduncles 6–10 mm long, sparsely puberulous or sometimes glabrous; heads globular, subdense, 18–25-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united into a ± truncate calyx. Pods submoniliform, to c. 5 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, crustaceous, breaking readily at constrictions, appressed-puberulous especially at constrictions. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, 3.5–4 mm long, slightly shiny, grey-brown; aril usually orange.
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