Bushy, spreading, domed or procumbent shrub to 2.5 m high and 4-5 m wide. Branchlets slightly to prominently angled at extremities, terete below, glabrous or usually with sparse or dense, short, straight, antrorsely-appressed fine pale hairs, new shoots usually densely hairy. Bark grey or brownish-grey, fibrous towards base of main branches. <P>Phyllodes usually asymmetric, upper margin more convex than the lower one, oblanceolate or narrow oblong to narrowly elliptic, 3-7 cm long, 4-15 mm wide, coriaceous, apices often slightly recurved and with sometimes slightly pungent mucro 1-2 mm long, finally glabrous but with short, straight, pale, appressed hairs when young, midrib prominent, lateral veins obscure. Gland on upper margin 5-12 mm above pulvinus, not prominent. <P>Peduncles axillary or rarely 1-2 on very reduced raceme, 2-(3-4) per node, 3-5 mm long, glabrous, often drying dark brown. Flower-heads globular, 9 mm diameter when fresh, mid-golden, 35-55-flowered, flowers 5-partite. <P>Legumes sub-moniliform, twisted loosely and irregularly, to 6 cm long, 3 mm wide, up to 10 seeds, glabrous or sparsely hairy, black. Seeds longitudinal, oblongoid to ellipsoid, 3-4 mm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, shiny to dull brown. Funicle filiform, about 2 mm long; aril conical at apex of seed 2-2.5 mm long to 2 mm wide at base, creamy to brownish.