Dense shrub or tree 2–3 m high. Branchlets glabrous or sometimes appressed-puberulous at the often angled extremities. New shoots subglabrous to densely appressed-puberulous with white or pale golden hairs. Stipules caducous. Phyllodes linear-oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 2.5–5.5 cm long, 2–4.5 mm wide, l: w = 12–21, normally ±abruptly narrowed to a delicate, curved to uncinate point, glabrous, 1-veined per face, obscurely penninerved. Inflorescences normally 2-or 3-headed racemes; raceme axes normally 1–5 mm long, subglabrous to moderately antrorsely puberulous with white or pale yellow hairs; peduncles 4–12 mm long, with indumentum as on raceme axes; heads globular, 20–35-flowered, bright golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free or united. Pods submoniliform, to c. 7 cm long, c. 6 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic, c. 6 mm long, black; funicle folded on one side of the seed.
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