Spreading glabrous shrub to 1.5 m high. Branchlets acutely angled towards apices, ribbed below phyllode insertion. Phyllodes on obvious stem-projections, patent to erect but commonly inclined to ascending, narrowly oblong to oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, rarely linear, straight or slightly curved, usually 10-25 mm long and 2-6 mm wide, l:w = 3-8, ±rounded-obtuse and excentrically rostellate, dark green; midrib not prominent; lateral nerves absent or obscure; gland adjacent to apical mucro; rarely a few phyllodes with an additional gland near middle. Inflorescences rudimentary 1-headed racemes with axes 0.5-1.5 mm long, 1-2 per node; peduncles 3-8 mm long, slender; heads globular, 10-18-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, straight to shallowly curved, to 6 cm long, 3-4 mm wide, firmly chartaceous. Seeds ±longitudinal, normally oblong, 2.5-3.5 mm long, slightly ridged peripherally, subnitid, dark brown; aril subterminal.
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