Bushy or straggly open shrub, commonly to c. 2.5 m high. Branchlets somewhat angled at extremities, glabrous or hairy. Phyllodes somewhat asymmetric, narrowly oblong-elliptic, oblanceolate, broadly obovate or circular, usually 4–15 mm long and 2–8 mm wide with length: width ratio of 1–5, ± obtuse and normally excentrically mucronulate, green, glabrous or hairy; midrib obscure or absent; lateral veins absent; glands 2, adjacent to mucro and near or below middle of phyllode, not prominent. Inflorescences normally 1-headed, rudimentary racemes with axes c. 0.5 mm long, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 4–20 mm long, slender, glabrous; heads prolific, globular, 4–4.5 mm diam., 8–20-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods circinnate to irregularly twisted or spirally coiled, 3–4.5 mm wide, crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, ±oblong, 4–5 mm long, shiny, dark brown; aril clavate, ¼–½ length of seed.
Grows mostly in sand, sandy loam and gravelly soil, in hilly country, in eucalypt woodland, woodland heath and open mallee scrub.
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