Straggly or spindly multistemmed, glabrous shrub 1–4 m high. Branches and branchlets commonly pruinose. Phyllodes elliptic to oblanceolate, sometimes shallowly recurved, 4–13 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, narrowed to (3–) 5–7 mm long pulvinus, obtuse or retuse, thickly or thinly coriaceous; midrib and marginal nerves prominent; lateral veins ±distinctly anastomosing; gland 1 or 2, lowermost near base. Racemes 2.5–5 cm long, occasionally longer, 6–14-headed, often pruinose; peduncles 2–5 mm long, stout; heads globular, 5–6 mm diam., densely 40-80-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united almost to their apices. Pods narrowly oblong, straight or curved, to 12 cm long, 5–10 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous. Seeds longitudinal to slightly oblique, oblong to elliptic, 4–7 mm long; funicle 1/2 to completely encircling seed in a single or double fold, creamy yellow.
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