Shrub (0.5–) 2–5 m high, with 1 or 2 straight or crooked main stems (plants appearing ±gnarled when stems crooked), lateral branches short and wide-spreading. Bark thick, corky. Branchlets glabrous, light brown to yellow tinged orange (often pale green at extremities), not pruinose. Stipules spinose but often only the bases persisting as blunt, knob-like protuberances with age, 4–8 mm long . Phyllodes inaequilaterally ovate to elliptic or rarely obovate, (15–) 30–50 mm long, (8–) 15–30 (–37) mm wide, undulate, short-acuminate, pungent, coriaceous, subglaucous ageing green, not pruinose; midrib prominent and situated near lower margin; minor veins forming a close reticulum. Inflorescences (few seen) terminal or axillary racemes; raceme axes 3–15 cm long and (together with peduncles and flower buds) purple-red and glabrous; peduncles twinned (rarely 3), 7–20 (–25) mm long; heads globular, 20–25-flowered, light golden; buds dark purple-red. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ±free. Pods substraight to strongly curved, raised over seeds and slightly to moderately constricted between them, 2–5 cm long, 8–10 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, light brown, glabrous. Seeds (few seen) longitudinally oblique, oblong-elliptic to ±globose, c. 5 mm long, c. 4 mm wide, dark brown; areole very small; funicle rather thick, folded below seed, not or scarcely expanded into an aril.
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