Tall, erect, glabrous, rounded, bushy shrubs 2-4 m high; branchlets slender, terete, ascending, reddish or somewhat mealy; bark smooth, grey on 'older stems. Phyllodes linear, 4-12 cm long, 1-5 mm broad, mainly terete-compressed but sometimes flat, straight or slightly curved, sometimes appearing scurfy or farinaceous, obscurely 1-veined on each face but 4-veined in all when terete, apex always uncinate, when phyllodes are more than 2 mm broad then broadest near the apex and tapering gradually towards the base; glands small situated on upper margin 5-10 mm from the base of the phyllodes. Inflorescences axillary and solitary or 2-4 in very short racemes; flower-heads globular yellow 30-40-flowered; peduncles slender glabrous 5-10 mm long; flowers 5-merous. Legumes linear 7-15 cm long, 5-6 mm broad, straight or curved, sometimes appearing flexuose when viewed from the side, raised and wrinkled over the seeds; margins straightedged or slightly constricted to moniliform. Seeds longitudinal in legume, obloid;funicle in a double fold 1/2 or more encircling the seed and thickened into a fleshy aril.
(Source: Whibley & Symon 1992)