Tree 5–12 m tall; bark smooth or sometimes finely fissured, dark grey or black; branchlets ribbed, hairy; ribs usually scabrous and with tufted hairs; young growth yellow. Leaves bipinnate, dark green; rachis c. 6–11 cm long, surface as for branchlets, with a gland at the junction of the uppermost 1–3 pinna pairs; pinnae in c. 10 pairs; pinnules in c. 35–55 pairs, crowded, linear, 2–4.5 mm long, c. 0.5–0.8 mm wide, within a single pinna more or less equal in length, margins hairy, apex obtuse and with pointed tuft of hair. Inflorescence a raceme or panicle; heads globular, c. 30–40-flowered, pale yellow, peduncles 5–8 mm long, hairy. Pod flatish, straight or slightly curved, 7–10 cm long, 6–10 mm wide, irregularly constricted, dark brown, scabrous above seeds, with scattered, short, appressed hairs. Green Wattle (Figure 131g). Flowers Dec.–Jan.
EGL. Known only from a single river catchment in Cann River area of East Gippsland, plants growing at the margins of warm temperate rainforest gullies. A specimen in MEL from Narre Warren is presumed to be from a cultivated plant.
