Bushy, compact, rounded, spreading, grey-green shrub 1-3 m tall, bark smooth; branchlets densely hoary pubescent. 

<P>Phyllodes elliptic to oblong elliptic less often to obovate, slightly asymmetric, apex rounded, 2-3 cm long, 1-1.8 cm wide, firm, grey-green, new shoots sometimes silvery, fallen phyllode bases persistent; marginal and main vein prominent, lateral veins obscure. Glands inconspicuous, just above the pulvinus. 

<P>Inflorescence of few globular heads from a short common peduncle. Peduncle 5-8 mm long; pedicel 1-2.5 cm; flower-heads globular, about 1 cm diam., mostly exceeding the phyllode, bright yellow, flowers 5-merous. 

<P>Legumes to 5.5 cm long, 1.4-1.8 cm wide, firm, glabrous, dark grey when mature but with a white bloom, often with only 1-2 seeds setting, not constricted between the seeds. Seeds oblique, 5-6 mm long, 3-4 mm wide; funicle short thickened into an obliquely terminal aril.