Diffuse viscid glabrous shrub 2–3 m high. Branchlets slender, commonly covered with a black sooty substance. Phyllodes erect, slender, narrowly linear, mostly shallowly incurved, compressed, 5–10 cm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, ±uncinate, with a strong resinous odour, obscurely 3-veined per face; gland 1–2 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 8–13 mm long; basal bract c. 0.5 mm long; heads globular, 20–30-flowered, pale yellow. Flowers 4-merous; sepals c. ¾-united; calyx lobes triangular. Pods linear, constricted between seeds, to 15 cm long, 2.5–3.5 mm wide. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, c. 4.5 mm long; funicle folded; aril thick.
Grows in skeletal soil between outcropping quartzite on slopes of rocky gullies and along creeklines, in association with Eucalyptus flindersii, E. camaldulensis and Callitris glaucophylla.
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