leaves tufted or subternate, subulate-triangular, rigid, pungent-mucronate, straight, sparsely pilose, the floral densely plumoso-pilose; flowers capitate; calyx hirsute, its lobes subulate, rigid, pungent, much longer than the tube; vexillum villous, carina glabrous; ovary glabrous; legume obliquely ovato-falcate, acuminate. A rigid, rough, strong-growing, furze-like bush, 3–4 feet high and wide, with very pungent leaves, but no prickles. Branches roughly hairy, with brown hairs. Leaves 6–7 lines long, or 3–4 lines, all generally straight and spreading. Heads several flowered; the petals yellow, the vexillum fulvous externally. Calyx and its segments thickly covered with long, foxy, rigid, straight hairs.
