Shrub or tree to 10 m high, single-stemmed. Bark ±corrugated, dark grey. Branchlets angular or ±flattened towards apices, dark red-brown, minutely pubescent, densely papillose; ridges not prominent. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic or elliptic, straight, 3.9–9.5 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, blue-green when fresh, acute to obtuse mucronulate, glabrous, papillose (especially the base and pulvinus), with 3–5 slightly prominent longitudinal veins; minor veins 7–9 per mm, fine, very rarely anastomosing; gland 1, basal, to 2 mm above pulvinus, blackish. Spikes 3–5 cm long, deep yellow. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.6–0.8 mm long, sinuolate or sepals c. 0.1 mm long, with minute reddish brown papillose hairs and occasionally scattered hyaline hairs at apices, usually glabrous on tube; corolla 1.3–1.5 mm long, dissected to 1/2–2/3, with papillose apices; ovary glabrous or slightly mealy. Pods linear, ±straight-sided to slightly constricted between and raised over seeds, 3–8.5 cm long, 3–3.5 mm wide, chartaceous, glabrous. Seeds narrowly oblong, 4–5.5 mm long, brownish black.
Grows in shallow, gravelly, sandy soils, in eucalypt woodland or in dense stands in undulating or hilly country.
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