Shrub to 2 m high, erect, glabrous, resinous, sometimes scurfy, usually branching near base. Bark smooth, dark grey to black. Branchlets angular towards apices often with resin-crenulated ridges. Phyllodes elliptic to narrowly elliptic (sometimes slightly wider below or above middle), oblique, curved and slightly sigmoid, (0.6-) 1-2 cm long, 4-9 mm wide, with an oblique short mucro (the apices of young phyllodes often dilated, pellucid and appear as if filled with gummy or resinous fluid, fide protologue), thinly coriaceous, sometimes ±glaucous, with 3 ±visible main nerves; minor nerves longitudinally obscure, finely longitudinally wrinkled; gland basal, minute, to 1.5 mm above pulvinus. Peduncles (5-) 13-22 cm long, 0.5-0.7 mm diam. Heads 5-8 mm diam., 20-50-flowered, medium golden or bright yellow, sometimes light golden; buds slightly spreading; bracteoles mostly with short irregularly triangular ±peltate lamina. Flowers 5-merous; calyx cupular, 1-1.3 mm long, dissected to 1/8-1/6; corolla 2-2.5 mm long, dissected to 1/3-1/2; petals with prominent midrib. Pods erect, narrowly oblanceolate to oblanceolate, basally tapered, 2-5.5 cm long, (4-) 5-10 mm wide, thinly woody and brittle, brown to blackish, obliquely nerved, opening elastically from apex. Seeds oblique, oblong, 3-5.8 mm long, brown; pleurogram with pale halo; funicle-aril narrowly turbinate.
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A low evergreen shrub. It grows to 1 m tall and spreads to 3 m across. The stem tends to lie over and the branches are spreading. The branches are angular. The young shoots are hairy but these are lost. The leaves (phyllodes) are greyish-green and narrow. They are shiny. They are 1-2.5 cm long by 0.2-0.4 cm wide. The leaves are curved. Normally 3 veins along the leaf are faintly visible. The edges of the leaves are wavy. The leaves are leathery and the tip is blunt. The flower heads are bright yellow balls. The pods are brown and oblong. They are 2.5-3 cm long by 0.4 cm wide. They are flat, thick and woody. They stick upwards. They have a blunt hook at the end. The seeds are small and brown. They are attached at an angle across the pod.
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