The tree typically grows to a height of 3 to 8 m (9.8 to 26.2 ft) and has a dense crown with grey to white hairy branchlets.

The grey-green hairy phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic shape and are straight to slightly recurved with a length of 4 to 11 cm (1.6 to 4.3 in) and a width of 4 to 16 mm (0.16 to 0.63 in).

It was reclassified as Racosperma georginae by Leslie Pedley in 1987 then transferred back to genus Acacia in 2001.

[3] Georgina gidgee woodlands have a patchy but widespread distribution in central Australia and are considered Vulnerable (VU) according to the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems.

[5] It is widely distributed through arid parts of central and eastern Australia from the southeastern Northern Territory in the west extending into Queensland to around the catchment of the Georgina River in the northeast and into the far northeast of South Australia in the southeast, where it is usually situated along water-courses or on plains growing in loamy or clay soils as a part of low open woodland communities.