Tree to 4 m tall, spreading, shrubby, sometimes spindly. New shoots pale citron-sericeous, soon glabrous. Branchlets sometimes pruinose, glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic, slightly asymmetric with upper margin more convex than lower, straight or shallowly falcate, (5–) 8–14 cm long, 7–15 mm wide, acuminate, coriaceous, glaucous to subglaucous, glabrous, multistriate by fine close non-anastomosing nerves with 1–3 slightly more prominent than the rest; pulvinus pale orange, mostly 5–10 mm long. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil, often in false terminal racemes due to phyllode reduction; peduncles 3–10 mm long, thick, ±sparsely puberulous; spikes 3–6 cm long, 6–8 mm diam., dense, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ⅓–⅔-united; calyx tube white-villous. Pods narrowly oblong, to 8 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, slightly undulate, short-pilose with hairs pale golden ageing white. Seeds oblique, oblong to elliptic, 4–4.5 mm long, ±glossy, grey-brown; aril pale yellow.
Found in iron-rich soils on ridges and upper slopes of ranges, sometimes forming groves along watercourses descending from ranges, growing with Acacia spp. and Eucalyptus spp. in spinifex country.
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