The dense shrub or tree typically grows to a height of 1.2 to 4 metres (4 to 13 ft)[1] and has hairy, terete and ribbed branchlets.

The erect, evergreen phyllodes have an elliptic-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic shape and are straight to shallowly incurved.

The pungent, grey-green and glabrous phyllodes are 6 to 12 cm (2.4 to 4.7 in) in length and have a width of 6 to 17 mm (0.24 to 0.67 in)and have many closely parallel, immersed nerves, three of which are usually slightly raised.

[1] The simple inflorescences occur in groups of two to four in the axils and have spherical flower-heads with a diameter to 5 to 8 mm (0.20 to 0.31 in) containing 54 to 85 densely packed golden coloured flowers.

[1] The range of the plant extends from around Boolardy Station and Cue in the north down to around Wongan Hills in the south where it is found in low woodland and tall shrubland usually dominated by other species of Acacia.