Low, much-branched, spreading shrubs 1-2 m high, often much wider than high; branches almost terete, slightly hoary when young becoming glabrous with age; bark grey, slightly fissured. <P>Phyllodes narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly oblong-cuneate, 1-4 cm long, 2-4 mm broad, straight or slightly curved, thick, compressed, striate, sometimes minutely scaly, slightly viscid and papillose when young, veins longitudinal, 2-5, prominent with less obvious intermediate ones, apex obtuse with a short hard straight mucro; glands small near the base on upper margin, <P>Inflorescences simple and axillary, solitary or twin; flower-heads bright yellow, globular, c. 20-flowered; peduncles filiform, much shorter than phyllodes, slightly hairy; flowers 5-merous. <P>Legumes linear, 3-6 cm long, 2-3 mm broad, curved, circinate, finely twisted, raised over the seeds, margins slightly constricted between seeds. Seeds longitudinal in legumes, ovoid; funicle filiform, short, abruptly terminating in a large fleshy white cup-shaped aril.