The shrub typically grows to a height of 1 to 2 metres (3 to 7 ft) and has a multi-stemmed habit and glabrous red-brown branchlets.

It mostly blooms between September and November[2] and produces racemose inflorescences with spherical flower-heads containing 15 to 24 yellow flowers.

Following flowering firmly chartaceous, dark brown to black coloured and glabrous seed pods form with a linear to narrowly oblong shape and a length of up to 8 cm (3.1 in) and a width of 5 to 8 mm (0.20 to 0.31 in).The dull to slightly shiny black coloured seeds are arranged longitudinally in the pods.

[3] The species was first formally described by the botanist Mary Tindale in 1980 as part of the work Notes on Australian taxa of Acacia as published in the journal Telopea.

[3] It is usually situated on rocky outcrops or gullies growing in stony sandy soils around granite, rhyolite, metasandstone, slate and quartzite as a part of dry sclerophyll forest and shrubland communities.