Shrub or tree to 10 m tall, often spindly. Bark smooth, fissured in older trees, grey to brown or black. Branchlets terete, densely villous. Stipules very conspicuous, 3–7 mm long. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate, apical point ±setose, straight to shallowly curved, 3.5–10.5 cm long, 4–8 mm wide, coriaceous, pubescent, appressed-hairy becoming glabrescent; longitudinal nerves numerous with midnerve more prominent than the rest, the minor nerves 8–13 per mm, crowded and not anastomosing; gland 1, basal, 5–10 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple; peduncles 1–5 mm long, densely villous; spikes 2.4–9 cm long, bright yellow, densely villous when young; receptacle densely white villous. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.5–0.9 mm long, dissected to ⅔–¾, villous; corolla 0.9–1.1 mm long, dissected to c. ½, villous; ovary usually glabrous or with apical hairs. Pods linear, ± flat, sometimes slightly twisted, 3.5–8 cm long, 4–7 mm wide, puberulous-scurfy, occasionally glabrous. Seeds oblique, ± elliptic, 3.6–4 mm long, dark brownish black; areole open, pale.
Grows in sandy soils on sandstone outliers, often on rocky ledges, usually amongst boulders in low open Eucalyptus –Triodia woodland.
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