Erect shrub 2-3m tall to small tree. Branchlets terete, glabrous, slightly viscid to minutely scurfy. Bark fissured, dark grey. 

<P>Phyllodes curvedly erect, narrow oblanceolate to narrow oblong, 2.5-6.5 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, firm, apices straight or slightly curved to blunt point, glabrous, finely striate with inconspicuous parallel veins, marginal vein resinous towards apex. Gland at base of phyllode on upper margin just above the pulvinus, not prominent. Peduncles 1-2, axillary, 3-6 mm long. Flower-heads shortly cylindrical, 7- 15 mm long, 4-5 mm diameter, 30-70-flowered, flowers 5-partite. 

<P>Legumes oblong to 5 cm long, 7 mm wide, flattish, glabrous. Seeds oblique, 4 mm long, funicle folded several times forming a basal aril.