Straggly or willowy shrub or tree 2–5 m high. Branchlets velvety pubescent with dense soft spreading hairs 0.5–1 mm long. Phyllodes patent to erect, narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic, sometimes oblanceolate, normally 2–5 cm long and 6–15 mm wide with l: w = 3–5, with 1–2 mm long, ± incurved or inflexed mucro, ± thinly coriaceous, green, velvety pubescent, with prominent midrib, obscurely penniveined; glands 2 or 3, with the lowermost 1–5 mm above pulvinus; pulvinus c. 2 mm long. Inflorescences 10–20-headed racemes; raceme axes 5–8 cm long, exceeding phyllodes, rather stout and pubescent; peduncles usually 4–7 mm long, pubescent; heads globular, 25–30-flowered, bright golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 2/3–3/4-united. Pods variably constricted between seeds, to 6.5 cm long, 6–10 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, velvety. Seeds oblique to almost transverse, elliptic, obliquely truncate adjacent to aril, 4–5 mm long, dull to slightly shiny, black.
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