The shrub or tree typically grows to a height of and has angled to terete, ridged and glabrous branchlets that have smoothgreybark. The filiform and glabrous leaves have a rachis that is and has one or two, or sometimes three pairs of pinnae that are made up of four to ten pairs of widely spaced pinnules with a linear shape and a length of and a width of. The plant blooms between August and December and produces simple inflorescences that occur in terminalpanicles with spherical flower-heads with a diameter of containing 5 to 14 cream-coloured flowers. The thinly leathery and glabrousseed pods that form after flowering are more or less flat and are straight to curved and irregularly constricted between the seeds. The pods have a length of and a width of containing longitudinally arranged seeds.