Spindly or straggly shrub to small tree to 4 m high; branches often pendulous. Branchlets glabrous or very sparsely puberulous, with convoluted, winged ridges to 3 mm high. Leaves: petiole to 5 mm long but often less than 1 mm, winged, glabrous or almost so, with a gland 1–2 mm long; rachis (1.4–) 2.5–8.5 cm long, sometimes absent, winged, ±glabrous or sparsely puberulous, often with a small gland at base of terminal and rarely other pair(s) of pinnae, interjugary glands absent; pinnae (1–) 3–10 pairs, (1.2–) 2.5–4.5 (–6) cm long; pinnules 7–17 pairs, well-spaced, oblong to narrowly oblong, narrowly ovate to lanceolate or narrowly obovate, 2.5–9 (–11) mm long, 0.9–3 (–3.6) mm wide, dark to mid-green above, paler below, recurved, mostly glabrous, apex acuminate or acute. Inflorescences in axillary or terminal racemes or panicles; raceme axes to 33.5 cm long, winged. Peduncles 5–17 mm long, ±hairy. Heads (6–) 8–16-flowered, cream-coloured to pale yellow. Pods straight-sided or sometimes irregularly constricted between seeds, normally curved, 6–12 cm long, 11–13 mm wide, coriaceous, reddish brown or blackish brown, with minor transverse veins, sometimes rough over seeds, glabrous; margins prominent, paler.
Grows in sandy and sandy clay soils, on ridges and hillslopes, on sandstone or at the junction of shale and sandstone, in eucalypt woodland or open forest with shrub understorey.
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