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Shrub or small tree to 3.6 m tall; bark yellowish, papery and flaking; young branchlets greyish-white to purplish-brown, finely appressed pubescent; internodes 0.2–0.5 cm long. Prickles usually solitary, straight and ascending or hooked downwards, sometimes with 1–2 lateral, ± rudimentary prickles in addition. Leaves small; pinnae 1 pair; leaflets 2–3 pairs, 1.6–3.2 x 1.2–2.4 mm, broadly oblong to obovate, glabrous. Flowers yellow green in c. 10–15-flowered globose to shortly spicate inflorescences on a c. 5 mm long peduncle. Calyx c. 1.6 mm long. Corolla c. 2.4 mm long. Pods straight, c. 30–35 x 13–14 mm, transversely veined, densely and shortly appressed pubescent and with sessile yellowish glands.