Shrubs or trees 1–4 m high, spreading, often rounded, dense to ± open, branching from near ground level. Branchlets often pruinose, glabrous. Phyllodes linear to linear-elliptic or narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic, straight to shallowly curved, 3–16 cm long, 3–13 mm wide, with red to brown margins, mostly acute to acuminate or caudate-acuminate, rarely obtuse, ± coriaceous, grey-green to glaucous, glabrous, with numerous fine closely parallel veins; midvein the most evident; pulvinus mostly 1.5–3 mm long. Inflorescences 1–4-headed racemes; raceme axes mostly 1–18 mm long, ± pruinose, glabrous; peduncles 5–13 mm long; spikes 10–22 mm long, 5–7 mm diam., dense, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 1/2–3/4-united. Pods linear, raised over but not constricted between seeds, to 11 cm long, 4–5.5 mm wide, crustaceous-coriaceous, ± pruinose, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, 4–5 mm long, ± glossy, dark brown to black; pleurogram U-shaped; aril terminal, folded.
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