Rigid, dense, intricate, domed shrub 0.2–0.5 m high, 1–2.5 m diam. Branchlets ±glabrous, dividing near extremities into a few short straight radiating aphyllous spines. Phyllodes linear, flat, 3–8 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, narrowed at base, straight to shallowly incurved but often slightly recurved at the obtuse excentrically rostellate apices, green, ± glabrous; midrib not prominent; gland inconspicuous, near or above middle of phyllode, often absent. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 6–11 mm long, slender, glabrous; basal bract brown; heads globular, 3–3.5 mm diam., 18–27-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous, rarely a few 4-merous; sepals free. Pods ± moniliform, strongly arcuate to rather loosely coiled, to 3.5 cm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic, narrowed at hilar end, obliquely truncate adjacent to aril, c. 2 mm long; aril clavate, white.
Grows in sand, sandy clay, clay and granitic loam, in Eucalyptus woodland or mallee shrubland.
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