Shrub or tree 2–6 (–10) m high. Bark rough, grey to red-brown; upper branches normally pruinose. Branchlets terete, normally glabrous. Phyllodes inequilaterally elliptic, falcate, 9–14 cm long, 2.5–4.5 cm wide, obtuse, coriaceous, glabrous, with 3 or 4 distant main veins (some confluent with lower margin near base), coarsely reticulate; gland basal, with 1–3 additional glands in notches along upper margin. Inflorescences in axillary racemes or terminal panicles; raceme axes 4–25 cm long; peduncles 9–15 mm long, to 25 mm long in fruit, in fascicles of 2–5, glabrous; heads globular, 5–6.5 mm diam., 31–41-flowered, creamy white to pale yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ±free to 3/4-united. Pods flat, to 20 cm long, 2.5–3.5 cm wide, coriaceous to subwoody, reticulate, glabrous; margins narrowly winged. Seeds transverse, ±broadly elliptic, 9–11 mm long, dull, grey-brown to brown; aril large.
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A small tree. It grows 3-6 m tall. The flowers are cream and in round heads.
Grows in sand, mostly over sandstone or laterite, in open forest, woodland and shrubland.
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