Shrub or tree, 3–6 m tall, with one or several trunks. Bark deeply fissured, grey. Branchlets sparsely hoary or glabrous, with obscure resinous ridges. Phyllodes erect, very narrowly elliptic to linear or filiform, flat or terete, straight to subfalcate, 4–15 cm long, 0.5–7 mm wide, with abruptly uncinate apex, coriaceous, subglaucous, glabrous or ±hoary to sparsely appressed-puberulous; obscurely multistriate with fine non-anastomosing longitudinal nerves; gland basal, inconspicuous or absent. Peduncles 2–5 mm long, mostly paired on axes 1–12 mm long. Spikes (0.6–) 1–3 cm long, 3–6 mm diam., dense, golden. Flowers 5-merous; calyx dissected to ±⅓, ±villous basally, with acute lobes; corolla twice the length of calyx, glabrous. Pods linear, slightly constricted between seeds, 3–9.5 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, chartaceous, pale brown. Seeds longitudinal, 2.5–5 mm long, dark brown; areole central, 0.3–1 mm long, sometimes pale; aril whitish.
Found mainly in skeletal soils, in rocky mountain ranges, usually towards the tops of ridges; at elevations from 550-1,150 metres.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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