The has dark brown coloured and deeply fissured bark with angled or flattened and glabrous branchlets that are often covered in a fine white powdery coating.

[1] It blooms between August and December producing simple inflorescences that are found in clusters of 3 to 16 in the racemes along a zig-zagged axis of 1 to 10 cm (0.39 to 3.94 in) with spherical flower-heads that have a diameter of 5 to 8 mm (0.20 to 0.31 in) containing 20 to 35 bright yellow coloured flowers.

[1] Following flowering it forms chartaceous to thinly coriaceous seed pods that have an oblong shape with a length of 4 to 15 cm (1.6 to 5.9 in) and have a width of 12 to 25 mm (0.47 to 0.98 in) and can be covered in a fine white powdery coating.

The dull to slightly shiny black seeds inside have an oblong-elliptic to ovate shape with a length of 5 to 6 mm (0.20 to 0.24 in).

[1] It is found in central and eastern Victoria where its range extends from the Grampians to areas east of Melbourne where it is commonly situated in montane woodlands and forests at an altitude of 500 to 1,700 m (1,600 to 5,600 ft).