The bushy resinous shrub typically grows to a height of 1 to 5 metres (3 to 16 ft).

The slender, yellow to light brown coloured branchelt have bright green new shoots.

The soft, flexible, thin, dull green and sometimes scurfy phyllodes have a linear shape with a length of 4 to 10 cm (1.6 to 3.9 in) and a width of 1 to 3.5 mm (0.039 to 0.138 in).

[2] It is native to an area in the Northern Territory and the Goldfields-Esperance and Pilbara regions of Western Australia.

[2] The shrub has a discontinuous distribution within the Pilbara region from coastal areas between Port Hedland and Cossack in the west to Marble Bar and Shay Gap, Western Australia.