The multi-stemmed tree or shrub typically grows to a height of and has an obconic habit and has glabrous branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The light green and terete phyllodes have with delicate brown points. The phyllodes grow to a length of and a width of and are not particularly rigid and usually shallowly incurved. The mostly glabrous phyllodes have eight longitudinal nerves each of which is separated by a distinct, longitudinal groove. It blooms in Decemberproducing yellow flowers.