Viscid glabrous shrub or tree 2–6 m high. Branchlets vernicose when young; ribs minutely tuberculate. Phyllodes normally narrowly elliptic, straight to shallowly incurved, 4–8 cm long, 5–11 mm wide, obscurely punctate, slightly roughened, often sparsely tuberculate, glabrous; midrib prominent; lateral veins obscure, oblique, frequently coalescing distally to form an almost continuous intra-marginal vein; glands 2 or 3, with lowermost 0–5 mm above pulvinus and the others often slightly raised. Inflorescences simple and 2 per axil or 2-headed racemes with axes to 5 mm long; peduncles 7–16 mm long; basal bract persistent; heads globular, 36–46-flowered, bright yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods linear, to 13 cm long, 5–7 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, light brown. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, 4.3–5 mm long, shiny, dark brown; aril folded at end of seed.
Information on the biological and ecological features, and the utilisation potential, of this species is given in B.R.Maslin and M.W.McDonald, AcaciaSearch: Evaluation of Acacia as a woody crop option for southern Australia, RIRDC Publication No. 30/017, 76–79 (2004).
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