Tree to 7 (–10) m high, slender, glaucous. Bark ribbony or flaky, blackish to grey, sometimes red-brown. Branchlets angular or flattened towards apex, red-brown or brown, glabrous, often pruinose. Phyllodes mostly very narrowly elliptic, mostly shallowly to markedly falcate, flat, (6–) 10–16 (–23) cm long, (6–) 10–18 (–32) mm wide, coriaceous, glabrous, with 3–6 ±prominent main veins continuous to base; minor veins (4–) 5–10 per mm, parallel, not anastomosing; gland inconspicuous, basal. Spikes (2–) 3–6.2 cm long, golden. Flowers 5-merous; calyx cupular, 0.4–0.8 mm long, dissected for ¼ of its length; lower half villous; with red-brown or black glandular hairs in upper half; corolla 1.5–2.1 mm long, dissected for ½ its length, glabrous or with few hairs; ovary densely pubescent. Pods linear, slightly moniliform, (3–) 5–11 (–15) cm long, ±woody to coriaceous, scurfy, hairy near base. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to narrowly oblong or elliptic, 3.7–6.7 mm long, brownish black; pleurogram often with dark halo; areole open.
Grows in eucalypt woodland and scrub, especially on rocky or stony hillsides and hilltops, usually in skeletal or sandy soils.
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