The often spindly tree or shrub typically grows to a height of 2 to 10 metres (7 to 33 ft)[1] but can reach up to 13 m (43 ft) It usually has a single stem with flakey or fissured bark that is grey to black in colour.

The glabrous angular branchlets are yellowish to brown in colour and usually resinous.

The thinly coriaceous, glabrous and evergreen phyllodes have a linear to narrowly elliptic shape and are flat and straight to slightly curved.

[2] It blooms from March to June producing yellow flowers.

[1] It is native to a large area in the Northern Territory and the Kimberley region of Western Australia where it is found to grow in a variety of habitats.