Prostrate or domed shrub to 0.5 (–1) m tall. Branchlets scurfy white, pubescent, hirsutellous, appressed-puberulous or subglabrous, not spinose. Stipules caducous or inconspicuous and less than 1 mm long. Phyllodes inequilaterally obovate to obtriangular-obdeltate, with upper margin forming a prominent rounded angle towards apex and lower margin straight to shallowly convex and ending in a distinct short acute point, concave between the angle and point, usually 4–7 mm long and 2.5–5 mm wide, slightly thickened, green, glabrous or hairy on margins; main nerve obscure and near lower margin, sometimes with a second nerve from the pulvinus. Inflorescences 1–3-headed racemes with axes to 2 mm long; peduncles 3–10 mm long, glabrous or hairy; basal bracts persistent; heads globular to obloid, loosely 10–16-flowered, creamy white or pale yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united; bracteoles not exserted in bud. Pods strongly curved to 1–1½-coiled, to 15 mm long (unexpanded), 3–4 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-ovate, 3–3.5 mm long; aril oblique.
Grows in clay, sand, sandy loam, gravelly loam and loam, in mallee woodland and heath.
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