Dense rounded shrub 1-4 m high. Branchlets longitudinally striped with glabrous often green epidermis and brownish appressed-puberulous bands, resinous. Phyllodes ascending to erect, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic, straight to shallowly curved, 3-5.5 cm long, 3.5-7 mm wide, acute to obtuse, apiculate, coriaceous, glabrous or with scattered microscopic hairs on nerves, resinous, with numerous sometimes white-resinous distant, impressed or slightly raised main nerves and occasional anastomoses in between; gland basal, inconspicuous. Inflorescences mostly simple (2 or 3 per axil) or sometimes a few 2-headed rudimentary racemes with axes 0.5-1 mm long; peduncles 4-6 mm long, densely appressed-puberulous, resinous; heads globular, 4.5 mm diam., 29-31-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 1/2-2/3-united. Pods prominently undulate, not constricted between seeds, to 3 cm long, 4-5 mm wide, coriaceous, villous, resinous. Seeds longitudinal, widely elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 3-4 mm long, subglossy, dark brown to brown-black; aril subterminal, creamy white.
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