Shrub or shrubby tree 1.5–4 m high. New growth golden-sericeous. Branchlets sericeous, glabrescent. Phyllodes erect, filiform, straight to incurved, terete, 5–18 cm long, 0.8–1.3 mm diam., acute, thin-flexible, silvery sericeous (golden-sericeous when young), with numerous fine slightly raised veins; glands 1–3, with lowermost 3–9 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles 3–6 mm long, sericeous; spikes 11–25 mm long, 5–6 mm diam., slightly interrupted, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 1/3 as long as petals, united. Pods pendent, moniliform, straight or slightly curved, to 18 cm long, 6–10 mm diam., woody, brownish, silvery sericeous to subglabrous. Seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic, 6–8 mm long, dull, brown; aril terminal, crested.
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A medium sized shrub growing 2-4 m high and spreading 2-3 m across. The branches are smooth and dark grey. They are round in cross section. The leaves (phyllodes) are 17 cm long by 1 cm wide. They are round in cross section with fine lines along them. They are light green. The pods are 6-10 mm wide.
Grows commonly along creeks and drainage lines, in often stony clay or loam, loamy sand, clay, clay loam and sand, in association with mulga and other Acacia spp. in low scrub to tall shrubland on plains and similar areas of low relief.
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It often grows naturally along stony and sandy creeklines.
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