Erect, glaucous, spreading bushy shrubs 2-3 m high; branchlets slightly angled but soon becoming almost terete; bark thin, greyish on mature stems and trunk. 

<P>Phyllodes lanceolate, 2-5 cm long, 4-8 mm broad, straight or slightly curved, flat, glabrous, glaucous to pale green, mid-vein prominent slightly eccentric, lateral veins numerous rather obscure, margins vein-like pale yellow, apex acuminate, straight or uncinate; glands small on upper margin near the base. 

<P>Inflorescences in axillary racemes shorter than the phyllodes or forming small leafy panicles longer than the phyllodes towards the ends of the branches; flower-heads globular, yellow, 8-15-flowered; peduncles slender, glabrous, c. 8 mm long; flowers 5-merous. 

<P>Legumes narrowly oblong, 5-12 cm long, 8-10 mm broad, flat but raised over the seeds, glaucous to light brown, margins thickened and slightly constricted between the seeds, apex obtuse or acute. Seeds longitudinal in legume, ovoid; funicle slender encircling the seed in a double fold and swollen into a small aril.