the tree has a gnarled appearance and typically grows to a height of with fissured and fibrous grey coloured bark. it has contorted main branches and tend to spread horizontally and has glabrous branchlets. the erect, evergreen phyllodes are straight and most often terete. the pungent, rigid phyllodes have a length of and a width of and are indistinctly multistriate. it blooms from april to june producing yellow flowers. the rudimentary inflorescences occur as flower-spikes with a length of and are not densely flowered. the narrowly oblong seed pods have a length of and a width of . the dark brown seeds inside the pods have an elliptic to oblong shape and are in length.