It has numerous slender main stems separating from each other at ground level that are covered in smooth or finely fissured, grey coloured bark.

The dull-green to greyish green phyllodes have an asymmetrically elliptic-obovate shape and are usually slightly sigmoid.

It was reclassified as Racosperma stellaticeps in 2003 by Leslie Pedley then transferred back to genus Acacia in 2006.

[3] It is native to an area in the Kimberley, Pilbara and northern Goldfields regions of Western Australia.

It is commonly found on flats, plains and sand ridges where it grows in stony sandy or clay soils.