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The shrub has an intricately and openly branched, diffuse to low-spreading habit and typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 1.5 m (1 ft 0 in to 4 ft 11 in) and a width of 1 to 3 m (3 ft 3 in to 9 ft 10 in). The stem usually divides just above the
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rather than true leaves. Th smooth green and glabrous phyllodes are 3 to 7 mm (0.12 to 0.28 in) in length and 2 to 3 mm (0.079 to 0.118 in) wide with an asymmetrical elliptic to obtriangular shape ending with a rigid, pungent, straight, brown point with a length of 0.5 to
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finely ribbed branchlets that are a light to reddish brown colour at the extremities but age to a grey colour. The branchlets that erect triangular
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