Bushy shrub or tree 2–6 (–10) m high. Branchlets often pruinose, with indumentum of sparse to moderately dense minute appressed straight hairs. Phyllodes narrowly oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, (2.5–) 3.5–6.5 cm long, 4–10 mm wide, mucronulate, thin, ±glaucous, with indumentum as on branchlets (young tips greyish white with denser indumentum), 1‑veined; lateral veins obscure; gland 2–7 mm above pulvinus, submerged and swollen within the lamina in a ±pouched fashion. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes 1.5–5 cm long, with indumentum as on branchlets; peduncles 2–4 mm long; heads globular, small, 7–9-flowered, bright light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ±free; ovary glabrous. Pods raised over seeds along midline, to 6 cm long, 7–10 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, pruinose, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic to slightly ovate, 5.5–6 mm long, shiny, black; aril clavate.
Grows in skeletal soil on rocky slopes, commonly composed of slate or shale, or in gravel and alluvium along creeks, in dry sclerophyll Eucalyptus forest.
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