[3] The tree typically grows to a height of 6 to 20 metres (20 to 66 ft) and has rough, furrowed and shaggy looking brown bark.

[1] The evergreen phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic to lanceolate shape and are 9 to 30 centimetres (4 to 12 in) in length and 2 to 6 cm (0.8 to 2.4 in) wide.

[4] When it blooms it produces axillary inflorescences with globular flowerheads with a diameter of 4.5 to 6 mm (0.18 to 0.24 in) containing 30 to 60 cream coloured flowers.

[4] The type specimen was collected by Allan Cunningham in 1819 from along the Queensland coast[5] during his voyage aboard HMS Mermaid.

[4] The tree is found through much of eastern Queensland[6] mostly along areas near the coast extending from around Cape York in the north down to Brisbane in the south where it is part of Eucalypt forest and woodland communities growing in sandy soils[4] and along the margins of monsoon and rainforest communities.