Rather dense, intricate shrub to 1.5 m high, commonly ± prostrate, hirtellous to puberulous or infrequently glabrous. Phyllodes mostly fasciculate and crowded at mature nodes on short nodose branchlets, cuneate-oblanceolate, 3–7 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, ± obtuse and obliquely mucronulate, thick but flat, green; midrib submerged, not prominent; lateral veins absent. Inflorescences simple, 1–4 per axil; peduncles 6–15 mm long, ebracteate at base; heads globular to slightly obloid, 5–6 mm diam., mostly 20–30-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods narrowly oblong, to 2 cm long, 5–9 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, undulate or twisted at dehiscence. Seeds ± spherical, c. 3 mm diam., dull, dark brown; aril conspicuous, curving ± half-way around seed, cream.
Grows in rocky loam and loamy sand or clay, often over jasperlite, in open Eucalyptus ebbanoensis mallee shrubland.
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