Intricate, spreading shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets glabrous to subglabrous; epidermis light grey. Stipules 1–1.5 mm long, ± spinose. Phyllodes sessile or subsessile, ± patent, slightly inequilaterally narrowly oblong to narrowly oblong-elliptic or lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, sometimes linear, usually 7–22 mm long and 1–2 mm wide, pungent, rigid, green, normally glabrous, 5-veined, with the 2-veined adaxial margin thick and somewhat vein-like; midrib prominent. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles usually 5–16 mm long, glabrous or appressed-puberulous; heads globular, usually 20–30-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free; petals nerveless. Pods curved, terete to compressed, quadrangular by broad margins when young, to 6.5 cm long, usually 4–5 mm wide, thickly coriaceous to subwoody, red-brown, obscurely striate, ±glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, usually 3.5–5 mm long; aril terminal, conical.
Grows in a variety of habitats but commonly on low laterite hills or associated with granite outcrops in scrub, shrubland or mallee communities. Between Port Gregory and Kalbarri it occurs in coastal heath on sandstone cliffs or limestone hills.
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