Erect, rather open, straggly, glabrous resinous shrubs 1-3 m high often branching into several main stems from the base; branchlets terete reddish-brown,. mature stems scarred by the phyllode bases; bark thin and dark grey. 

<P>Phyllodes narrow oblong-elliptic broadest at or near the centre, 1-2.5 cm long, 2.5-5 mm broad straight or slightly curved, rigid, spreading, rather crowded, mid-vein prominent, lateral veins few and rather obscure, obliquely tapering into a thin pungent point; glands small near the middle on the upper margin. Stipules small c. 1 mm long lanceolate-subulate ascending rather persistent at the base of each phyllode. 

<P>Inflorescences simple and axillary, solitary; flower-heads globular mid-yellow 50-60-flowered; peduncles glabrous longer or shorter than phyllodes; flowers 5-merous. 

<P>Legumes stipitate, linear, 2-3 cm long, c. 3 mm broad, flat more or less straight chartaceous; margins slightly constricted between the seeds, apex acute. Seeds longitudinal in legume, obloid; funicle short and filiform, not expanded into an aril.