Dense, procumbent shrub to 0.5 (–1.5) m high and c. 1 m diam. across. Branchlets tomentose or pilose with ± retrorse or patent hairs, or glabrous. Stipules linear, 0.8–1.2 mm long. Phyllodes 6–10 per whorl, ascending to erect, ± terete to flattened, straight or shallowly incurved and normally slightly recurved at apex, normally 2–5 mm long, with or without oblique mucro to 0.2 mm long, pubescent or pilose to glabrous, with an impressed adaxial vein and an obscure abaxial vein. Peduncles (3–) 6–15 (–23) mm long, pubescent to glabrous. Heads (20–) 25–35 (–50)-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-or 6-merous; calyx 0.5–0.8 mm long, hispid, pilose or glabrous; calyx lobes linear, slightly incurved, 0.3–0.4 mm long and thick; corolla lobes striate, hispid, pilose or glabrous. Pods sessile, 25–60 mm long, 6–9 mm wide, flat but rounded over seeds along the midline, glabrous, viscid with a delicate resinous odour; margins thickened. Seeds transverse or slightly oblique, oblong, c. 4 mm long; pleurogram open.
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A small spreading shrub. The young branches are hairy. The leaves (phyllodes) are very small. They are 0.2-0.7 cm long by 0.05 cm thick. They are flattened and often curved. They occur in rings of 6-8 around the stalk. The flower heads are round and in the angles of the leaves. The flower stalk is 0.6 to 1.5 cm long. The pods are long and narrow (2.5-6 cm long by 0.6-0.7 cm wide). The pods do not have a stalk and are round in cross section. They are dark brown at maturity.
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