 It has hard, thin and shallowly bark that is cracked and fissured along with flattened and acutely angled branchlets that are a light greenish colour at the extremities.Like most species of "Acacia" it has phyllodes rather than true leaves.The dark green to grey–green with a slight sheen, dimidiate phyllodes have a length of and a width of 5–15.5 cm long, (1–) 1.5–2.5 (–3.5) cm wide and thinly coriaceous with numerous longitudinal nerves numerous that are parallel and close together.