A stocky, gnarled or spreading tree 2-7 m high with a dense crown. Branchlets slightly angled, hoary with minute hairs and a scurfy, mealy bloom. Bark dark grey, rough, fissured. 

<P>Phyllodes 4-9 cm long, 5-12 mm wide, elliptic to narrow elliptic usually evenly tapered each end, with few prominent longitudinal veins; grey with mealy bloom and appressed hairs, apex acute to acuminate, base narrow cuneate. Gland basal, indistinct.

<P>Inflorescences of 5-6 heads on compact racemes or occasionally reduced to a solitary peduncle. Flower- heads globular, 20-25-flowered. Flowers 5-partite.

<P>Legume 6-13 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm wide, flat, curved or coiled, reticulately veined. Seeds transverse to somewhat oblique, 9-10 mm long, 7-8 mm wide, funicle not greatly developed.