Shrub to c. 3 m tall. Branchlets pruinose, glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic or ±oblanceolate, 3–6 cm long, 6–12 mm wide, obtuse, coriaceous, glaucous, glabrous; midrib prominent, with a minor nerve parallel to midrib for ⅔ length of phyllode; lateral nerves few and obscure; gland somewhat prominent, 10–18 mm above pulvinus, occasionally a second gland above middle. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes 3–5 cm long, pruinose, glabrous; peduncles 10–16 mm long, pruinose, glabrous; heads globular, 20–30-flowered, yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. ⅗-united. Pods to c. 5 cm long, 12–13 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, pruinose, glabrous. Seeds transverse, oblong-elliptic, 3.5–4 mm long, ±dull, black; funicle 3/4 encircling seed in a double fold; aril clavate.