Shrub to straggly tree 1.5-5 m high, openly branched. New growth citron golden-sericeous. Branchlets glabrous. Phyllodes commonly patent to ±reflexed, linear-elliptic to linear-oblanceolate, straight to shallowly incurved, 7-16.5 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, with margins yellow, acute to caudate-acuminate with straight to recurved tip, thin-coriaceous, glabrous; nerves numerous, closely parallel, occasionally anastomosing, scarcely evident. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles 1.5-4 mm long, ±appressed-puberulous or glabrous; receptacle glabrous or sparsely puberulous, with hairs commonly white and subappressed; spikes commonly 30-45 mm long, 4-5 mm diam., loosely flowered, bright golden. Flowers 4-merous; sepals partially united. Pods linear, ±raised over and constricted between seeds, to 10 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, thin-crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic, 3.5-4 mm long, glossy, black; aril terminal, subconical.
Grows in sand, sandy loam, and clayey sand overlying sandstone, limestone, ironstone and gravel, in dense sandplain scrub or shrubland with species of Calothamnus and Melaleuca .
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