Dense shrub 1.5-2.5 m tall, spreading 2.5-4 m diam. Branchlets angular at first but soon terete, glabrous, old phyllode-scars raised, prominent. Stipules caducous, not seen.

Phyllodes elliptic to oblanceolate, more or less asymmetric, tip curved to rostriform, occasionally straight, apiculate, tapered to the 0.5 mm pulvinus, blades 9-27 mm long, 2.5-7.5 mm wide, 2-4.5 times longer than wide, rigid, thick, ascending, mostly straight, occasionally slightly curved, glabrous, dull mid-green; veins numerous, fine, immersed, anastamoses infrequent; gland small, inconspicuous, near blade/pulvinus junction.

Peduncles (5-11 mm long, 2 per node, glabrous, slender; basal peduncular bracts persistent until about artthesis, more or less semicircular, ciliolate; heads globular, bright golden, 2.5-3 mm diam., 18-19-flowered; bracteoles spathulate, ciliate. Flowers 5-merous. Sepals petal length, free, oblong-oblanceolate. Petals elliptic, free, glabrous, spreading. Ovary minutely puberulous.

Legumes narrowly oblong, slightly raised over but not constricted between seeds, to 4.5 cm long, 4-7.5 mm wide, coriaceous more or less curved to smooth, glabrous, apiculate at apex, margins more or less thickened. Seeds obliquely arranged in pods, oval, 2.5-3 mm long, 2-2.2 mm wide, 1.2 mm thick, subglossy, dark pleurogram U-shaped; areole raised; aril large, formed by two apical loops of fleshy funicle.