Dense spreading often resinous shrub to 2 (–3) m high. Branchlets sparsely to moderately appressed-puberulous, glabrescent, commonly yellow-ribbed at extremities. Phyllodes linear or (when broad) narrowly oblong-elliptic, incurved to shallowly sigmoid, sometimes incurved only at base otherwise straight, sometimes subterete, usually 1–3 cm long, 1–4 mm wide, l: w = 5–20, commonly ± uncinate, glabrous to subglabrous, with 2 (rarely more) veins per face when flat, 5-veined in all when subterete; veins indistinct or prominent and sometimes mealy. Inflorescences 1-or 2-headed racemes with axes to c. 1 mm long, sometimes simple; peduncles usually 2–5 mm long, densely light golden appressed-puberulous; basal bract solitary; heads globular, usually 17–22-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. ½-united. Pods strongly curved to openly 1½-coiled, often twisted, to 6 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, glabrous, viscid when young. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, arillate.
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