Small or medium sized, spreading trees 5-8m high, often dividing into a few main stems at ground level or with a single trunk and a bushy canopy; branchlets angular and whitish scurfy but becoming almost terete and a light grey-brown with age; bark pale grey to dark grey, rough, flaky and fissured. 

<P>Phyllodes linear-lanceolate, 4-14 cm long, 3-15 mm broad, straight or falcate, coriaceous, dull green to pale grey and often scurfy, flaking off with age, numerous fine parallel veins seen only under a lens, often 1-3 veins more prominent than the rest, apex obtuse or acute with a small curved point; glands basal, inconspicuous. 

<P>Inflorescences in axillary racemes, much shorter than phyllodes, raceme axis finely pubescent with 4-10 heads, apex sometimes growing into leafy shoots; flower-heads globular pale to mid. yellow 15-25-flowered; peduncles hoary, c. 5 mm long; flowers 5-merous. Legumes narrowly oblong, 7-12 cm long, 8-12 mm broad, straight or curved, flat, chartaceous, transversely veined, margins thickened, slightly constricted between seeds. Seeds longitudinal in legume, obloid; funicle filiform, short, not thickened into an aril.