• The tree is able to grow to a height of around 20 m and has a bole that is approximately 150 cm in diameter.

• It has deeply fissured, dark-grey to black coloured bark that appears quite scaly on older trees. It has angular and ribbed branches The bark on older trunks is dark greyish-black in colour, deeply fissured and somewhat scaly.

• Younger branches are glabrous, ribbed and angular to flattened near the greenish coloured tips.

• The stems of younger plants are occasionally hairy. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves.

• The glabrous, glossy, leathery, dark green to greyish-green phyllodes have a length of 4 to 16 cm and a width of 6 to 30 mm with a variable shape.

• They most often have a narrowly elliptic to lanceolate shape and are straight to slightly curved and often taper near the base and have three to five prominent longitudinal veins.