The thinly coriaceous and glabrous phyllodes have a length of 7 to 16.5 cm (2.8 to 6.5 in) and a width of 3 to 5 mm (0.12 to 0.20 in) and have yellow coloured margins and a straight to recurved tip along with many closely parallel non-prominent nerves.

The glossy black seeds have an elliptic shape with a length of 3.5 to 4 mm (0.14 to 0.16 in) and a sub-conical terminal aril.

[2] The type specimen was collected by Augustus Frederick Oldfield from along the Murchison River[2] and was later formally described by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1863 as part of the work Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.

It is native to Mid West region of Western Australia from around Northampton in the north down to around Geraldton in the south.

[1] It is commonly situated in coastal areas from around Eradu in the south east up to Kalbarri National Park in the north in soils over gravel or sandstone, ironstone and limestone as a part of sandplain shrubland communities often along with Calothamnus and Melaleuca species.