Prostrate shrub normally 0.2-0.3 m high. Branchlets at first slightly angled, villous to pubescent with minute black resin-hairs intermixed, soon terete and glabrous except for resin-hairs. Phyllodes continuous on branchlets, ascending to erect, shallowly curved to shallowly sigmoid or sinuous, ±terete, 6.5-22.5 cm long, 1-1.5 mm diam., with curved-acute and innocuous apex, coriaceous to semirigid, glabrous, with 8 distant strongly raised veins. Inflorescences simple, 1 (or 2) per axil; peduncles 4-10 mm long, to 14 mm long in fruit, villous and with minute resin-hairs intermixed; heads globular, 8 mm diam., 24-37-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 1/2-3/4-united. Pods linear, not constricted between seeds, slightly curved, subterete, to 5.5 cm long, 3-3.5 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, dotted with minute black resin-hairs. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 2-3 mm long, dull brown, tuberculate; tubercles irregular-shaped; aril apical, yellow.
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