Shrub or tree to 7.5 m tall. Bark fissured longitudinally or rough and stringy, brown or grey. New shoots densely white villous. Branchlets terete, virgate, densely villous. Stipules persistent, 1–2 mm long, reddish brown. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic, normally narrowed at apex and ending in an innocuous or pungent mucro, straight or shallowly incurved, (3–) 5–8 (–13) cm long (4–) 5–10 (–12) mm wide, ±coriaceous, often scurfy, sparsely to densely pubescent, sometimes glabrous; longitudinal nerves numerous with midnerve more prominent than the rest, the minor nerves 9–12 per mm, fine, with rare anastomoses; gland 1, c. 3–18 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple; peduncles 1–3 mm long, densely tomentulose; spikes 3–5 cm long, bright yellow; receptacle hairy. Flowers 5-merous; calyx deeply dissected, bearing intertwined hairs; corolla 0.9–1.1 mm long, dissected to ½, glabrous; ovary densely silvery-pubescent. Pods linear, 4–13 cm long, 2.5–4 mm wide, coriaceous, shallowly to moderately curved, longitudinally striate, scurfy, puberulous, later glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, 4.6–5.7 mm long, dark brown.
Grows in colonies, in stony sandy soils or alluvium, in savannah grassland, shrubland, eucalypt woodland or tall wet forest, along creeks, on hills or in gullies on sandstone.
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