Shrub 2–3 m high. Branchlets straight, brown-dotted, glabrous. Stipules persistent but sometimes only bases remaining as indurate tooth-like projections at old nodes. Phyllodes linear, sometimes narrowly elliptic, ± straight to shallowly curved, 7–15 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, acute, mucronate, thin, green, glabrous, punctate by circular red-brown resin-hairs when young; midrib prominent; lateral veins absent or obscure; gland commonly absent; pulvinus 0.5–1 mm long. Inflorescences simple but initiated on new shoots which sometimes resemble terminal racemes; peduncles twinned, 1–2 cm long, glabrous, with a ± caducous bract near or above middle, ebracteate at base; heads globular to obloid, 30–45-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ± free. Pods ± terete, slightly constricted between seeds, to 6.5 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, red-brown, obscurely longitudinally reticulate, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 3.5–4.5 mm long, semi-glossy, dark brown; aril white.
Grows in granitic or lateritic soil, loam, clayey sand over granite and clay, often near watercourses or granite rocks in temperate Eucalyptus forest.
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