the shrub or tree is slender and erect typically grows to a height of and a width of around . it has angled slightly hairy branchlets with patent to ascending evergreen phyllodes with a flat linear shape that is straight to slightly curved. the glabrous phyllodes are in length with a diameter of . it blooms from june to october producing bright yellow perfumed flower-spikes. the simple inflorescences occur singly in the axils with flower-spikes that are in length with a diameter of loosely packed with golden flowers. the thinly coriaceous and glabrous seed pods that form after flowering resemble a string of beads are up to in length and have a width of . the glossy, black seeds are longitudinally arranged in the pods and have a broadly elliptic shape with a length of with a pitted areole.