Tall shrubs or small trees 3-7 m high, normally multi-stemmed and forming neat rounded, spreading, umbrageous canopies which often appear silvery-green with new growth; branchlets sometimes drooping, slightly angular, minutely pubescent, but becoming terete and glabrous with age; bark grey, rough, flaky and fissured. 

<P>Phyllodes linear, 4-8 cm long, 1-3 mm broad, straight or slightly curved, compressed, appressed pubescent, silvery pubescent when young, numerous fine parallel longitudinal veins, apex terminating in a fine delicately curved point, attenuate towards the base; glands basal.

<P>Inflorescences in axillary clusters of 2-6 heads; flower-heads globular, yellow, c. 25-flowered; peduncles short, hoary; flowers 5-merous. 

<P>Legumes narrowly oblong not moniliform, 6-10 cm long, 5-8 mm broad, flat, chartaceous, reticulate, light brown, scarcely constricted between seeds. Seeds longitudinal in legume, ovoid to ellipsoid; funicle folded  below the small aril.