Tall, erect, compact, spreading shrubs 2-3 m high often the same or more across, with a golden and silvery appearance; branchlets slightly angular, striate, covered with fine golden to silvery-grey appressed hairs. 

<P>Phyllodes oblanceolate, obovate 2-5 cm long, 6-20 mm broad, flat, covered with short glossy silky more or less appressed hairs, young phyllode golden pubescent, main vein oblique, lateral veins inconspicuous, apex obtuse with a minute mucronate point. Glands inconspicuous on upper margin near the middle. 

<P>Inflorescences axillary, solitary but mostly 2-5 on short racemes which often grow out to form a leafy shoot at the apex; flower-heads globular, golden yellow 25-35-flowered; peduncles slender golden pubescent, 8-20 mm long; flowers 5-merous. 

<P>Legumes linear, 5-10 cm long, 10-15 mm broad, dark brown, undulate, raised and often roughed and warted over the seeds; margins yellowish, vein-like somewhat constricted between the seeds. Seeds longitudinal in legume, ovoid-obloid; funicle short, abruptly thickened into a white fleshy aril.