Erect, spreading, dense, glaucous shrubs 2-3 m high; branchlets ascending, glabrous, smooth,  slightly angular soon terete; bark grey-brown, fissured at the base of stems. 

<P>Phyllodes thickly filiform, 5-13 cm long, c. 1.5 mm diam., straight or slightly curved, rigid, erect, terete, slightly glaucescent, veins numerous, longitudinal, yellowish and not raised, apex coarsely pungent, dark reddish-brown; glands small and rather obscure, one 10-15 mm from base of phyllode, and one at the apex. 

<P>Inflorescences axillary, glabrous, racemes much shorter than phyllodes, raceme axis slender and glabrous with 2-8 heads; flower-heads globular, bright yellow, 30-35-flowered; peduncles slender, glabrous, 10-20 mm long; flowers 5-merous. 

<P>Legumes narrowly oblong, 6-11 cm long, 10--12 mm broad, flat, slightly curved, slightly resinous and fissured, brown, margins thickened and vein-like, slightly contracted between seeds; apex acute. Seeds longitudinal in legumes, ovoid; funicle filiform, short, without an aril.