The brittle branchlets tend to break easily and are covered in fine silvery hairs but becoming glabrous with age.

The silvery grey-green phyllodes are found in clumps at the end of the branchlets and have a long narrowly linear and strap-like appearance.

[4][5] In 1993, Richard Cowan and Bruce Maslin assigned it to the subspecies, Acacia coriacea subsp.

[4][7] The species epithet, sericophylla, derives from the Greek words, sericos (silken) and phyllon (leaf), and refers to the dense silky hairs found particularly on the young phyllodes.

[8] It is native to an area in the Northern Territory and the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia.