Rounded fragrant shrub or tree 1–5 m high, sometimes ±prostrate. Branchlets resin-ribbed at extremities, hoary puberulous. Phyllodes oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, straight to slightly incurved, 3.5–8 cm long, 3–8 (–11) mm wide, obtuse with minute callose apiculum, dark green, glabrous, 3–7-veined per face with 3 veins more prominent than the rest (when multinerved); veins resinous and impressed in crests of low ridges; anastomoses absent or few between the nerves; gland at distal end of pulvinus. Inflorescences 3–8-headed racemes; raceme axes 2–15 mm long, resinous hoary; peduncles 2–4 (–5) mm long, resinous hoary; heads globular, 3.5–4.5 mm diam., c. 25-flowered, light to dark golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, raised over and ±constricted between seeds, straight to slightly curved, to 6 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, chartaceous, glabrous to very sparsely appressed-hairy. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, c. 4 mm long, glossy, black; funicle/aril apical.
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