It usually has a few main stems that are sparingly divided around ground level with the upper branches forming a usually horizontally spreading crown on mature plants.

The main stems and limbs have attractive red Minni ritchi style bark that curl back onto themselves into small scrolls.

The glabrous, thinly crustaceous, light grey to brown coloured seed pods that form after flowering are flat and linear with a length of 4 to 9 cm (1.6 to 3.5 in) and a width of 3 to 6 mm (0.12 to 0.24 in) and are straight to shallowly curved.

[1] The species was first formally described in 1980 by the botanist Bruce Maslin as part of the work Acacia (Leguminosae-Mimosoideae): A contribution to the flora of central Australia as published in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

[3] It is native to a large area in the Northern Territory and the Pilbara, Goldfields, Mid West and Kimberley regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated on granite outcrops, sand plains and rocky hills and rises growing in sandy to gravelly soils.