Shrub or tree usually 1.5–5 m high, with juvenile bipinnate leaves often persistent. Branchlets red to reddish brown, usually glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, falcately recurved to straight, 5–20 cm long, 5–25 mm wide, narrowed at base, acuminate to obtuse, green to ±glaucous, normally drying reddish at least on margins and midrib, 1-veined per face, obscurely penniveined; gland 1–4 cm above pulvinus; margin frequently shallowly indented at gland which is sometimes connected to midrib by a fine oblique nerve. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes normally 2–7 cm long, usually glabrous or appressed-puberulous; peduncles normally 2–4 mm long, usually glabrous or sparsely appressed-puberulous; heads globular, 10-20-flowered, light golden; bracteole laminae circular, dark brown, densely white-fimbriolate, evident in buds. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods 5–12 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, lightly pruinose, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 4–5.5 mm long, slightly shiny, dark brown to black; funicle encircling seed in a single or double fold, dark red-brown.
Mostly found in hilly country or at high altitudes, often near watercourses, and on a variety of soils including clays and sands.
Can be grown by cuttings. Seeds needs soaking.
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