Bushy shrub or tree to c. 4 m high. Branchlets terete, glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly oblanceolate, sometimes linear, usually 4.5–12 cm long, 3–12 mm wide, narrowed at base, obtuse, green, glabrous, 1-veined per face; lateral veins longitudinally anastomosing; gland normally 1–2.5 cm above pulvinus. Inflorescences 6–12-headed racemes; raceme axes mostly 1–5 cm long, glabrous, drying dark brown to blackish; peduncles 2–5 mm long, stout, glabrous or subglabrous, drying dark brown to blackish; heads globular, usually 20–27-flowered, bright golden; bracteoles evident in buds, with laminae ±circular, dark brown to black and white-fimbriolate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ⅚-united. Pods usually ±moniliform, to 12 cm long, 4–6 mm wide, ±thinly coriaceous to crustaceous, very dark brown to black, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 5–7 mm long, dull, black; aril clavate.
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A shrub. It grows 1-4 m tall and wide. The 'leaves' are dark green and rigid. They are 4-14 cm long by 3-12 mm wide. The flowers are in round golden balls. They are 6-8 mm across. The seed pods are 7-12 cm long by 4-7 mm wide. They are constricted between the seeds.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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