Commonly an obconic, dense shrub 2–4 m tall. Branchlets finely ribbed, glabrous. Phyllodes crowded, mostly ascending to erect, linear, straight to shallowly incurved, commonly 5–12 cm long and 1–3.5 mm wide, uncinate, thin, glabrous; midrib ±prominent; lateral nerves absent or obscure; gland inconspicuous, usually 3–15 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences 3–8-headed racemes; raceme axes commonly 10–25 mm long, ±appressed-puberulous with pale yellow or white hairs; peduncles 3–4 (–6) mm long; heads globular, 3.5–4.5 mm diam., densely 20–30-flowered, cream or lemon yellow; bracteoles white-fimbriolate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods narrowly oblong, scarcely constricted between seeds, to c. 8 cm long, usually 5–6 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, 4–4.5 mm long, dull, black; funicle filiform, ½–3/4 encircling seed in a single fold, red-brown; aril thick.
Grows in rocky clay, sand or loam, often along watercourses, in eucalypt woodland and scrub.
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