Open, somewhat gangling, glabrous shrub 0.5–2.5 m high. Branchlets angled at extremities, faintly to moderately pruinose. Stipules caducous. Phyllodes occasionally continuous with branchlets but not forming cauline wings, narrowly oblong-elliptic to narrowly oblong-oblanceolate or elliptic to obovate, rarely lanceolate, (1–) 1.5–3 (–4) cm long, (5–) 7–12 (–15) mm wide, with length: width ratio of 1.5 to 3, often slightly twisted, sometimes recurved and shallowly concave, with coarsely pungent mucro, thickly coriaceous, smooth, grey-green to glaucous; midrib not prominent; lateral veines absent; marginal veins prominent, yellow; gland 1–5 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences rudimentary, 2-headed racemes with axes 0.5–1 mm long; peduncles 8–21 mm long; heads globular, 30–37-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods strongly arcuate to spirally or irregularly coiled, terete to semi-terete, to c. 1.5 cm long (unexpanded), 2–3 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, ± pruinose when young. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to widely elliptic, 2.5–3 mm long, mottled; aril conical, white.
Grows in sand, sandy loam, clay, clayey sand or loam and clay, in low hilly or flat country, in mallee shrubland or eucalypt woodland.
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