Shrub or tree 3–7 m high with habit similar to that of Acacia papyrocarpa. Branchlets sometimes pendulous, appressed-puberulous, glabrescent. Phyllodes linear, subterete to flat, 5–11 cm long, 0.9–2 (–3) mm wide, acuminate with a fine delicately curved innocuous point, ±appressed-puberulous, with numerous closely parallel indistinct veins. Inflorescences 2–6-headed racemes or simple in axillary clusters; raceme axes minute, 0.1–2 mm long; peduncles 4–7 mm long, appressed-puberulous, sometimes with reddish resin-hairs intermixed; heads globular, 4–5 mm diam., 25–36-flowered, golden; bracteoles spathulate, not ciliate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free; petals glabrous. Pods submoniliform, to 10 cm long, (2–) 3–5 mm wide, chartaceous, smooth, finely appressed-puberulous to ±glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic, ±4.5 mm long, glossy, brown-black; aril small.
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A small tree. It grows 3-8 m tall. The bark is smooth or finely cracked. The leaflets are straight or slightly curved. They are 5-11 cm long by 1-2.5 mm wide. There are 2-6 flowering shoots in the axils of the leaves. The heads are round and have 25-36 flowers. They are bright yellow. The pods are straight an constricted between the seeds. The pods are 4-11 cm long and 2-5 mm wide. The seeds are long.
Grows in solonised brown and red soils, in low woodland and tall shrubland, sometimes associated with chenopods, Casuarina cristata or members of the ‘Acacia aneura group’.
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It is a warm temperate plant.
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