Variable slender or spreading shrub or occasionally small tree to 6 m high. Bark smooth, grey or brown. Branchlets angled, brown, reddish brown or blackish, often pruinose, glabrous to densely pubescent, with low longitudinal ridges. Young foliage-tips reddish or greenish brown, resinous. Leaves: petiole 0.7–4.3 cm long, glabrous to densely pubescent, with a small or prominent gland just below to 1/2 way down from basal pair of pinnae; rachis 0.7–9.5 (–11) cm long, sometimes absent, glabrous to densely pubescent, eglandular or with a gland at base of terminal pair of pinnae; pinnae 1–8 pairs, 1.3–9 cm long; pinnules prominently discolorous, dark green and shiny above, paler and dull below, 5–21 pairs, mostly not overlapping or touching, mostly oblong to narrowly oblong, elliptic to narrowly elliptic or narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 1.9–18 mm long, 0.9–5.7 mm wide, ±flat, glabrous or ciliate, with midnerve prominentand apex mostly acute to acuminate. Inflorescences in axillary or terminal racemes or false-panicles. Heads 5–14-flowered, cream-coloured, pale yellow or golden yellow. Pods straight or curved, 3.5–10 cm long, 12–19 mm wide, coriaceous, purplish, blackish or reddish brown, with minor transverse nerves, often darker and rough over seeds, glabrous; margins paler, prominent.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 6 m tall. The pods are raised over the seeds. The pods are 4-10 cm long by 12=19 mm wide.
Grows in heath, woodland and forest, in a range of soil types and topography, often in sandy soils on sandstone.
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It is a temperate plant. Arboretum Tasmania.
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