Rigid much-branched spreading shrub 0.3-1 m high, sometimes semi-prostrate, glabrous or sometimes hirtellous. Branches striate, pruinose between ribs. Branchlets numerous, short, divaricate, spinescent, aphyllous. Phyllodes often erect, linear, semi-terete to flat, 7-15 mm long, sometimes 20-40 mm long at base of branchlets, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, excentrically mucronulate with apex sometimes uncinate; midrib raised; upper margin often slightly thickened. Inflorescences rudimentary 1-headed racemes with axes > 0.5 mm long; peduncles 4-10 mm long; basal bracts brown; heads globular to shortly obloid, golden, 4.5-5.5 mm diam., 15-25-flowered; bracteoles concave, brown. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united; petals 1-nerved. Pods constricted between and prominently rounded over seeds, curved, to 4 cm long, 2.5-3.5 mm wide, very thinly coriaceous, dark brown. Seeds longitudinal, ovate, obliquely truncate adjacent to prominent aril, 2.5-3 mm long, khaki-coloured; aril dark coloured.
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