Large, symmetrical trees 8-15 m high to 30 m in moist gullies in eastern States and Tas., often with a distinct strong trunk before branching and forming a quite dense dull green canopy; branchlets minutely pubescent and angular but becoming glabrous and marked with light coloured ribs with age; bark dark grey-brown, hard and furrowed. <P>Phyllodes elliptical, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 6-14 cm long, 12-30 mm broad, straight or curved, sometimes falcate, more or less coriaceous, 3-5 prominent longitudinal veins with many finer reticulate veins between them, apex acute or obtuse, tapering towards the base; glands small on upper margin near base. <P>Inflorescences in axillary racemes much shorter than phyllodes, raceme axis hoary with 2-8 heads; flower-heads globular, pale yellow, 30-50-flowered; peduncles stout, hoary, 5-10 mm long; flowers 5-merous. <P>Legumes narrowly oblong, 4-12 cm long, 6-10 mm broad, flattish, curved, coiled and twisted, margins thickened, slightly constricted between seeds. Seeds longitudinal in legume; funicle thick, undulate, pinkish-red, encircling the seed in a double fold.