Shrub 0.3–0.4 m high, spreading, ± flat-topped. Branchlets glabrous or sparsely appressed-puberulous at extremities, resinous. Phyllodes erect, terete or flat, linear to narrowly oblong (when flat), mostly shallowly incurved, (2–) 3–7 cm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, mucronate, rigid, glabrous except pulvinus normally appressed-puberulous; veins 4, prominent, flat-topped, broad, resinous; central vein prominently raised when phyllodes flat; intervein spaces deeply furrowed when phyllode terete, ± glaucous. Inflorescences simple, mostly 2 per axil; heads ± subsessile, globular to shortly obloid, 5 mm diam., 13–20-flowered, light golden; bracteoles exserted in buds, acuminate, dark brown to blackish. Flowers 4-merous; sepals 1/2–2/3-united. Pods linear, shallowly constricted between seeds, straight to ± twisted, to 5 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, coriaceous-crustaceous, glabrous; margins broad. Seeds (few seen) longitudinal, obloid, turgid, 2–2.5 mm long, greyish brown, obscurely mottled; aril terminal.
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