Shrub or tree 2.5–10 m high. Bark slightly fissured, grey or grey-brown, mottled, later rough at base. Branchlets terete, faintly ridged, ± glabrescent, tomentose towards apices. Young foliage-tips ferruginous, densely fawn-or grey-tomentose. Leaves blue-green, ± glaucous; petiole 1–3 cm long, bearing 1 tomentose orbicular gland ± close to basal pair of pinnae; rachis (1.5–) 3–10 cm long, with 1 similar gland at or near base of all or some pinnae, occasionally eglandular; pinnae (2–) 3–8 pairs, 3.5–11 cm long; pinnules 12–33 pairs, cultrate to narrowly oblong, narrowly elliptic or ± lanceolate, 5–14 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, with midvein closer to straight upper margin, and 1 or 2 shorter veins (not reaching margin) between midvein and convex lower margin, glabrous or with sparse, long, white or fawn hairs on upper surface, subglabrous or with ± dense white or fawn crisped hairs beneath, obtuse or subacute. Inflorescences in terminal or axillary false-panicles. Heads globular, 15–30-flowered, pale yellow or cream-coloured. Pods ± straight-sided, 5–13 cm long, 6.5–10 mm wide, subcoriaceous, blue-green or blue-black, ± pruinose, sparsely fawn-puberulous.
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A tree. It grows 10 m tall. The leaves (phyllodes) are finely divided and blue-green. The flowers are pale yellow. They are round and 2.5 cm across. They are on short hairy stalks and have a scent. The pods are flat and blue-green. They are 13 cm long. They are constricted between the seeds.
Found in open forest or woodland or mixed scrub woodland, on sandstone or sedimentary rocks, often in deep soils; at elevations up to 450 metres.
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Grows in open forest or woodland or mixed scrub woodland, on sandstone or sedimentary rocks, often in deep soils.
It is a subtropical plant. It grows in sandstone soils. It can tolerate drought but is damaged by frost.
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