Weeping shrub 1–5 m high. Bark smooth, brownish grey. Branchlets ±terete with low ridges, dark brown or dark red-brown, ± villous. Young foliage-tips silvery or yellowish white, villous. Leaves herbaceous, bright green above, paler beneath, subsessile with basal pinnae arising ± immediately or rarely to 0.7 mm above pulvinus, sometimes with a gland at basal pinnae; rachis 1.5–6.6 cm long, ridged, ± villous, mostly eglandular, sometimes with a spherical or ellipsoid pale brown or blackish gland at base of terminal pinnae or rarely 2–6 upper pinnae; pinnae 3–12 pairs, 0.5–2.5 cm long, basal pairs shorter than others; pinnules 5–20 pairs, cultrate to ± oblong, 1.5–5 mm long, 0.4–1 mm wide, 1-veined, glabrous, acute or subacute. Inflorescences in axillary racemes or terminal false-panicles. Heads 8-16-flowered, golden. Pods 1.5–8 cm long, 4–6.5 mm wide, subcoriaceous, bluish, bluish brown or almost black, ± pruinose.
Grows in open forest or woodland, scrub-woodland and in Melaleuca scrub, in gravelly clay or sandy soils, often on Wianamatta Shale.
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