the multi-stemmed tree or shrub typically to a height of and has a rounded bushy habit. it has light to dark grey coloured bark that is longitudinally fissured and forms small flakes. the terete branchlets are densely to sparsely puberulous and have broadly triangular dark brown stipules with a length of around . the green, narrowly elliptically shaped phyllodes are flat and straight to shallowly incurved. each phyllode has a length of and a width of with two or three prominent longitudinal main nerves. although it flowers across a wide time span over most of the continent, in western australia it is much more restricted, blooming only from may to september producing yellow flowers. the dense flower spikes are paired in phyllode axils and have a length of . after flowering linear, straight to curved seed pods form with a length of and a width of . the dark brown seeds in the pod have a narrowly oblong shape and a length of around .