Tree 6–20 m high. Bark peeling in small curved flakes similar to 'Minni Ritchi' species. Branchlets glabrous, resinous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to ± oblanceolate, commonly inequilateral with a ± straight lower margin and convex upper margin, sometimes shallowly falcate, 6–10 cm long, 8–20 mm wide, coriaceous, glabrous, resinous when young, with numerous indistinct close non-anastomosing veins, of which 3–5 slightly more prominent. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 at base of rudimentary axillary shoot; peduncles 8–20 mm long, glabrous; spikes 2–3 cm long. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united into a ± truncate calyx. Pods narrowly oblong, 3–7 cm long, 5–9 mm wide, thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, glabrous, slightly resinous. Seeds longitudinal to oblique, widely elliptic, 3.5–4.5 mm long, shiny, brown; aril small.
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