Dense, bushy, rounded, spreading, glabrous shrubs 1-2 m high; branchlets prominently angled, older branches striate, ribbed, almost terete; bark thin, greyish-brown.  Phyllodes narrow-obovate, oblanceolate, 3-6 cm long, 4-10 mm broad, straight or slightly curved, glabrous, light-green, mid-vein slightly eccentric, lateral veins numerous obscure and reticulate, margins prominent and yellowish, apex obtuse and with or without a short mucro; glands small situated on the upper margin below the centre of the phyllode, 

<P>Inflorescences axillary glabrous racemes, normally c. half as long as the phyllodes, rarely almost as long as phyllodes, raceme axis slender, glabrous and normally with 5-8 heads; flower-heads globular, yellow 15-20-flowered; peduncles slender, glabrous, 3-5 mm long; flowers 5-merous. 

<P>Legumes linear, 6-12 cm long, 6-7 mm broad, coriaceous, flat but raised over seeds, narrowed at both ends, short-stipitate; margins thickened and vein-like, slightly contracted between seeds. Seeds longitudinal in legume; funicle long, encircling seed in a double fold and expanded into a broad whitish aril.