Wispy shrub 3–7 m high, branches virgate to sub-pendulous. Branchlets densely white-tomentose. Stipules persistent, setaceous, 3–4 mm long. Phyllodes crowded, ascending to erect, narrowly oblong, (0.6–) 0.8–2.7 (–3) cm long, 1.3–2.3 mm wide, mucronate to subsetose by a delicate, short point 0.5 mm long, appressed-hairy; veins numerous, closely parallel, rarely anastomosing, obscure with ±central one slightly pronounced; gland 2–4 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, peduncles (3–) 4–7 mm long, densely white-tomentose; spikes 15–35 mm long, dense, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals almost free, short-tomentose (as are petals). Pods narrowly oblong, flat but prominently rounded over seeds, 3.5–8 cm long, (5–) 6–7.5 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, mid-brown, densely hairy, very obscurely obliquely nerved. Seeds oblique, oblong, depressed at centre, 4–4.5 mm long, sub-shiny, dark brown to black, areole dull; aril terminal.
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