Dense rounded spreading shrub 1-2 m high. New growth resinous. Branchlets ±angled when young, soon terete, glabrous. Phyllodes ascending to erect, linear-oblanceolate, straight to shallowly incurved, 3.5-7.5 cm long, 3-6 mm wide, obtuse and apiculate, coriaceous, glabrous, with 6-10 distant impressed nerves per face. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles 5-10 mm long, glabrous or subglabrous; heads subglobular to obloid, 5.5-6 mm long, 4.5 mm diam., 33-45-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear to submoniliform, straight to slightly curved, to 5 cm long, 1.5 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, appressed-puberulous, resinous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, 3 mm long, semi-glossy, black; aril apical.