Grass-like subshrub 0.1–0.4 m high, erect or sometimes sprawling with weak, ± prostrate stems, few-or multi-stemmed from the base, sometimes spreading by subterranean runners. Stipules minute. Phyllodes few, continuous with branchlets, bifariously decurrent and forming opposite wings with each one extending to the next below; wings usually 0.5–3 mm wide, glabrous, pubescent, hirsute or scabridulous and dark green; free portion of phyllodes usually 1.5–5 mm long, commonly tooth-like where subtending inflorescences, acute, with vein close to adaxial margin; gland absent. Inflorescences 1–4-headed racemes; raceme axes 0.5–10 mm long, slender; peduncles 5–12 mm long, slender, glabrous; heads globular, 10–20-flowered, golden; buds obtuse to subacute. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united almost to their apices. Pods stipitate, curved, flat, to 3 cm long, 7–8 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, villous. Seeds transverse, oblong to elliptic, 3–4 mm long, arillate.
Grows mostly in sand, loam and lateritic soils, often in winter wet depressions, usually in open woodland, woodland and forest, occasionally in shrubland.
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