Shrub or tree 1.5–10 (–15) m high. Bark smooth and greyish green on young trees, later rough and corrugated. Branchlets with the surface and inconspicuous ridges bearing velvety, silvery grey or chestnut hairs 0.8–1 mm long. Young foliage-tips chestnut-coloured, velvety. Leaves silvery greyish; petiole above pulvinus inconspicuous or to 0.6 cm long, terete, with an orbicular gland near basal pinnae; rachis 2–8 cm long, mostly bearing 1–3 minute interjugary glands between pairs of pinnae as well as ± jugary glands often present at some pairs of pinnae; pinnae 4–12 pairs, 3–7.5 cm long; pinnules 11–28 pairs, narrowly lanceolate to ovate or narrowly lanceolate-oblong, 3–10 mm long, 1–2 (–2.5) mm wide, lanate with long weak silvery hairs on lower surface and margins, sparsely lanate on upper surface, sharply acute to acuminate. Inflorescences in axillary racemes, or terminal or axillary false-panicles. Heads globular, 24–48-flowered, bright yellow. Pods 2–12 cm long, 4–6.5 mm wide, thickly coriaceous, dark brown, velvety with soft chestnut-coloured and silvery hairs 1–1.2 mm long.
Grows on basalt, shale and sandstone, often with Eucalyptus moluccana and E. tereticornis in dry sclerophyll forest, on ridges and slopes and in gullies.
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