Shrub or tree 2–8 m high. Branchlets pruinose, microscopically hirtellous with hairs usually c. 0.05 mm long. Phyllodes usually oblanceolate and obtuse or retuse, mostly 3–6 cm long and 8–20 mm wide, thin, grey-green to glaucous, glabrous or microscopically hirtellous on margins and/or midribs or rarely entire laminae, 1-veined, finely penniveined; gland not prominent, 0–3 mm above pulvinus; pulvinus 2–5 mm long. Inflorescences usually 10–20-headed racemes; raceme axes usually 3–5 cm long, glabrous to subglabrous; peduncles 3–6 mm long, glabrous to subglabrous; heads showy, globular, subdensely 15–25-flowered, bright golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods alternately rounded over seeds on either side along midline, to 9 cm long, 8–10 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, pruinose, glabrous; stipe slender. Seeds longitudinal to oblique, oblong, 4–6 mm long, slightly shiny, black, arillate.
Grows in sand, loam or clay loam in open eucalypt woodland or forest, often adjacent to Brigalow forest.
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