A slender erect shrub to 2.5 m high; branches reddish-brown with abundant scurfy opaque resin.  Phyllodes linear, terete or slightly flattened 4-14 cm long commonly about 7-8 cm by 1 nun wide ascending, not rigid, pale green, finely striate with 6-9 veins on each side, often covered with flaky opaque resin, apex. blunt virtually straight, not pungent.

<P>Inflorescences a simple, axillary, short spike; flower-heads oblong, bright lemon yellow, 1 cm long, peduncles 6-7 mm long, flowers 5-partite. 

<P>Legumes linear, 5-6 cm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, slightly constricted between the seeds,papery, twisted and curved when mature. Seeds longitudinal in legume, 3.5-4 x 1.5 mm black, funicle folded and thickened into a yellow aril covering the end of the seed.