Compact, dense, rounded, spreading, grey-green shrubs 1-3 m high and often the same or more across; branchlets slightly ribbed, not angular, hoary. <P>Phyllodes obliquely oblanceolate to obovate 1-3.5 cm long, 5-15 mm broad, flat, grey-green, glabrous or silky hairy never completely clothed with silky hairs, young phyllodes silky hairy usually bronze to grey-white, 1-veined with inconspicuous lateral veins; apex obtuse, sometimes mucronate. Glands small on the upper margin near the middle. <P>Inflorescences axillary, solitary or mostly 2-5 pedunculate heads on a short rachis or common penduncle; flower-heads globular, bright yellow 20-30-flowered; peduncles slender finely pubescent up to 20 mm long; flowers 5-merous. <P>Legumes linear, straight or slightly curved, 3-7 cm long, 5-6 mm broad, raised and sometimes warted over the seeds, dark brown or somewhat glaucous; margins slightly constricted, thickened, yellowish. Seeds longitudinal or oblique in legume; funicle short, thickened into a clavate aril.