The shrub or tree typically grows to a maximum height of 7 m (23 ft) and is usually covered with a fine white powder.

The coarse and flattened branchlets are 3.5 to 11 mm (0.14 to 0.43 in) in width and have a purplish, brown-orange or tan colour and covered with a fine white powder.

The glabrous, rigid and coriaceous phyllodes have a narrowly lanceolate-elliptic to ovate-elliptic shape with a length of 6 to 11.5 cm (2.4 to 4.5 in) and a width of 10 to 27 mm (0.39 to 1.06 in) and have three nerves that are more prominent than the rest.

[2] The subsessile flower-spikes are 2.5 to 7.5 cm (0.98 to 2.95 in) in length that are densely packed with dark yellow flowers.

[2] It is endemic to the north eastern corner of New South Wales in the Bolivia Range in the northern tablelands on the border with Queensland where it is found on granite slopes amongst boulders growing in sandy soil as a part of dry heath and Eucalyptus and Callitris woodland communities.