Senegalia laeta is a perennial shrub or small tree growing to a height of 4–10 m with a greyish-green bark looking blackish from a distance, with a pink slash.

The pale brown leathery pods are pointed, whereas those of Seneglia senegal are not and this character is an easy feature to distinguish these Senegalia laeta from that species.

[1] Senegalia laeta is native to Africa, including the Sahara as far south as Tanzania, the Middle East, and Western Asia.

[3] Other uses to which Senegalia laeta is put are as fuel-wood and charcoal, browse for domestic animals, dead fencing for bomas, poles, fence-posts.

The bark from the trunk is used for making ropes and repairing calabashes, and in medicine it is considered to have analgesic properties.