Dense, bushy, rounded, glabrous, spreading shrubs 2-4 m high, branching at or just above ground level often with foliage almost to the ground, obscuring the stems; branchlets angular and light greenish-brown but almost terete becoming dark brown with age, a conspicuous feature is the old legumes which often persist on the bush after the seeds have been shed.

<P>Phyllodes narrowly oblong to narrowly obovate, 4-9 cm long, 6-12 mm broad, straight or curved, coriaceous, veins longitudinal, 3-5 with the mid-vein often slightly more prominent and a number of less conspicuous reticulate lateral veins, apex obtuse with a small hard lateral mucro; glands basal. 

<P>Inflorescences normally shortly racemose with 2-3 heads on a short stout rachis, rarely solitary; flower-heads, globular, yellow, c. 40-flowered; peduncles slender, glabrous, 5-12 mm long; flowers 5-merous. 

<P>Legumes narrowly-oblong, 4-10 cm long, 8-12 mm broad, curved finally twisted, coriaceous, marked with a number of transverse splits when mature, usually greyish-brown, margins thickened not constricted. Seeds longitudinal or slightly oblique in legume; funicle thick and a conspicuous, red or yellowish orange colour, encircling the seed in a double fold.