Glabrous shrub 1–2.5 m high. Branchlets bearing scars where phyllodes have fallen. Stipules mostly caducous, inconspicuous, 0.2–0.3 mm long. Phyllodes crowded, patent, triangular to oblong-triangular with broad, sessile, truncate base, 1.5–3 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, terminated by conspicuous, upwardly inflected, setose mucro 0.5–2 mm long; longitudinal veins indistinct, 3–7 per face; gland absent or inconspicuous. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 4–7 mm long, resinous, ebracteate at base; heads globular, 30–40-flowered, light golden; bracteoles c. 2 mm long, acuminate and slightly exserted in buds. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ±free, narrowly linear. Pods narrowly linear, 3–6 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, resinous, dark red-brown, finely longitudinally veined. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 3–4 mm long, ±shiny, black; aril terminal and white.
Grows in shallow sand over sandstone, often near creeks in fire-protected areas, in low shrubland, often with Triodia.
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