the shrub typically grows to a height of and has smooth dark grey coloured bark. the glabrous, angular to flattened branchlets have red-brown to light brown colour and have resinous ridges. the straight, green phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate shape. the phyllodes have a length of and width of and a small knob-like mucro at the apex and three prominent longitudinal nerves. it blooms from january to october producing yellow flowers. the cupular flowers widely spaced and the petals have a prominent midrib. after flowering brown woody, narrowly oblanceolate, flat, seed pods form that are basally narrowed form. the pods have a length of and a width of and open elastically from the apex. the dark brown seeds inside have a broadly oblong-elliptic shape and are in length.