Bushy shrub or tree 3–10 m high. Bark brown to grey. Branchlets glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly ovate to narrowly elliptic, straight to shallowly falcately recurved, 6–16 cm long, usually 1–3 cm wide, acuminate, thin, glabrous, prominently 2-veined per face, sometimes with a less prominent third vein present, with minor veins forming a fine open reticulum; gland 1–2.5 cm above pulvinus; margin commonly indented at gland which often touches the adaxial longitudinal vein or is connected to it by a fine oblique vein. Inflorescences 7–12-headed racemes, sometimes in panicles; raceme axes (1.5–) 3–6 (–8) cm long, glabrous or subglabrous, sometimes growing out; peduncles (4–) 6–12 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 15–25-flowered, pale yellow to ±white. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods to 14 cm long, 8–15 mm wide, thinly crustaceous-coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, c. 5 mm long, slightly shiny, black; funicle thickly filiform, ½ to wholly encircling seed, black (dry); aril clavate.
Mainly found in coastal areas, favouring moist sites in tall forests and margins of rainforests. Wet or dry sclerophyll forest and in rainforest, in sandy or basaltic soils.
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Predominates in coastal areas and near tablelands, favouring moist sites in tall forests and margins of rainforests.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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