Erect, graceful trees 8-15 m high with a long bare trunk and a spreading light green crown; branchlets slender and pendulous; bark smooth and silvery-grey on branchlets, rough and fissured on main trunk. 

<P>Phyllodes linear, straight or slightly curved, 4-10 cm long, 2-4 mm broad, glabrous, 3 obvious longitudinal veins and a number of well spaced rather obscure anastomosing veins; apex acute and straight or slightly curved; glands small, on upper margin 1-2 cm from the base. 

<P>Inflorescences axillary and solitary or twin; flower-heads pale yellow, c. 30-flowered; peduncles thin, 5-10 mm long, glabrous; flowers 5-merous. 

<P>Legumes linear, 6-10 cm long, 5-7 mm broad, stipitate, flattish, margins thickened, often unevenly constricted between the seeds. Seeds longitudinal in legume; funicle short, filiform, without an aril.