Shrub or tree 1–5 m high, often bushy with a casuarina-like appearance. Branches frequently red-brown. Branchlets slender, sometimes faintly (rarely markedly) pruinose, glabrous. Phyllodes ascending to erect, filiform, straight to shallowly curved, quadrangular to ±terete, rarely flat, 8–20 cm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, with a curved mucro with a gland at its base, not rigid, slightly longitudinally wrinkled or grooved when dry, light green to grey-green, glabrous, 4-veined; glands basal, and at base of mucro. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes 1–3 cm long, slender, glabrous; peduncles 4–7 mm long, slender, glabrous; heads globular, 20–30-flowered, light golden to mid-golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, linear-spathulate. Pods narrowly oblong, prominently rounded over seeds, to 8 cm long, 7–11 mm wide, chartaceous, light brown, glabrous. Seeds transverse to oblique, oblong to widely ovate-elliptic or orbicular, 4.5–5.5 mm long, shallowly depressed at centre, dull, black, exarillate.
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A small shrub. It grows 1-5 m high. The small branches are smooth and reddish-brown. The leaves (phyllodes) are 9-13 cm long by 0.1 cm wide. They are dull green and thin. They stick upwards and are brittle. They have a gland at the tip. The flower heads are balls about 0.5 cm across. They are bright yellow. They are carried in clusters. The pods are 4-6 cm long and 0-8 (?) cm wide. They are light brown. They are slightly constricted between the seeds.
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