Multistemmed shrub (1.5–) 2–3.5 m high. Bark grey, smooth becoming fissured near base. Branchlets silvery sericeous between obscure ribs at extremities, glabrescent. Phyllodes narrowly linear to very narrowly elliptic, straight to shallowly incurved, 5–8 (–10) cm long, 2–3 (–4) mm wide, coriaceous to subrigid, dull green to silvery greyish green, with minute, silvery, appressed hairs which are confined to between the veinss with age (hairs often obscured by resin); finely multistriate with veins of uniform prominence. Inflorescences (few seen) simple; peduncles 3–6 mm long, with silvery white appressed hairs; spikes 10–25 mm long, light golden, subdensely flowered. Flowers 5-merous; calyx gamosepalous, irregularly dissected for ½–¾ its length, minute (⅕–¼ length of petals); petals 1.3–1.4 mm long. Pods submoniliform, 2–6 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, sericeous between the obscure, longitudinal nerves. Seeds longitudinal, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic, 4–5 mm long, shiny, dark brown; aril white.
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