Dense compact, rounded spreading, viscid shrubs 1-3 m high; branches almost terete, puberulous, more or less farinaceous, tuberculate especially on the younger branchlets and marked with prominent raised phyllode bases.
Phyllodes linear, oblong-cuneate, 1-3 cm long 1-4 mm broad, flat or subterete, shallowly sigmoid, usually viscid, sometimes farinaceous, glabrous, 2-5 longitudinal veins on each face sometimes covered with minute whitish scales, apex thick and obtuse or with a short hard oblique point.
Inflorescences axillary and solitary or twin, sometimes on a very short common peduncle; Flower-heads globular, yellow, c. 20-flowered; peduncles c. 2-8 mm long, golden pubescent; flowers 5-merous.
Legumes linear, 3-6 cm long, 2-3 mm broad, curved to circinate, twisted, stipitate, viscid when young, brown, margins thick yellowish not or scarcely contracted between seeds. Seeds longitudinal in legume obloid; funicle filiform, with 2-3 short folds below the large aril.