Shrub 2–3 m high, rounded or obconic, with trunks and main branches somewhat contorted. Bark grey, fissured on main trunks. New shoots densely appressed-puberulous; hairs pale yellow ageing silvery. Branchlets sparsely appressed-puberulous, soon glabrous. Phyllodes erect, terete, 6–9.5 cm long, 0.9–1 mm diam., innocuous, appressed-puberulous when young, soon glabrescent or some hairs persisting in grooves between the numerous fine closely parallel veins. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 2–7 mm long, ±appressed-puberulous; heads subglobular to obloid, c. 6 mm long, 18–20-flowered, golden. Flowers 5‑merous; sepals free to ½-united. Pods narrowly oblong, undulate, to 8 cm long, 8–15 mm wide, crustaceous-coriaceous, densely velvety; hairs ±long, light golden ageing white. Seeds oblique to transverse, broadly elliptic to circular, 6.5–9 mm long, dull, dark brown; aril a small terminal mound.
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