Much-branched shrub to 3.5 m tall. Branchlets and phyllodes glabrous. Phyllodes patent to erect, linear, infrequently narrowly oblanceolate, straight or shallowly incurved, (2.5–) 4–13 (–15) cm long, 1–5.5 mm wide, commonly acuminate, uncinate to subuncinate, green or subglaucous; midrib scarcely raised; lateral nerves fine or absent; gland 1 or occasionally 2, with the lowermost 1–3 cm above pulvinus. Inflorescences 3–10-headed racemes; raceme axes 4–20 mm long, appressed-puberulous with hairs light golden, becoming white and sparse by fruiting; peduncles 2–4 mm long; heads globular, 2–3 mm diam., 15–25-flowered, light golden; bracteoles golden-fimbriate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free or united. Pods linear, variably constricted between seeds, to 10 cm long, 5–6 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong or elliptic, 4–6 mm long, dull, black; funicle half to wholly encircling seed in a single fold, light brown or red-brown; aril thick.
Grows in sand, sandy loam, loam and clay, mostly on flatlands and in open eucalypt woodland.
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