Erect shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets densely white-hispid. Stipules erect, subulate, 1.5–2 mm long. Phyllodes 15–20 per whorl, slender, ± straight, 5–10 mm long, hispid; lower phyllodes erect; upper phyllodes spreading to gently recurved; mucro 2–4 mm long, ± incurved and commonly with viscid droplets. Peduncles 1.5–3 cm long, hispid. Heads 40–50-flowered. Flowers with calyx c. 0.8 mm long, glabrous; calyx lobes subulate, short; corolla 2–2.3 mm long, ± striate, hispid in upper half. Pods sessile, 2–3.5 cm long, 5–6 mm wide, glabrous. Seeds 3–10 per pod, longitudinal, c. 4 mm long; pleurogram closed; aril large.