Shrub or tree 1.5–3 m high. Branchlets appressed-puberulous, glabrescent, resinous. Phyllodes patent to ascending, asymmetrically narrowly elliptic, straight or slightly recurved, 18–25 mm long, 3–6 mm wide, with upper margin curved with a slight gland angle 1/3–3/4 from base, rigid, glaucous aging green, glabrous except often tomentulose basally; apex acute, pungent; nerves numerous, closely parallel, fine; pulvinus to 0.5 mm long and encased in an often dark-coloured resin-mass. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 3–4 mm long, ±appressed-puberulous; heads globular, 4–5 mm diam., 23–25-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, linear to spathulate-linear. Pods and seeds not seen.