Spreading, much-branched, glabrous shrub, to 0.5 (–1) m tall and 0.6 (–1.5 ) m wide. Bark light grey. Branchlets terete, with ±obvious yellow ribs and brownish to light green interstices apically, covered with a variably pronounced, white, exfoliating epidermis. Phyllodes patent to slightly inclined, linear, quadrangular (at least when dry), 11–29 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, l:w ratio = 11–30, straight or sometimes very shallowly arcuate, sometimes very slightly dilated at base, pungent, rigid, light greyish green, with a yellowish nerve along each angle, with adaxial nerve bifurcating in the region of the gland. Inflorescence usually a 1-headed raceme, very occasionally 2-headed; rudimentary racemes with axes 1–1.5 mm long, enclosed (in bud) by conspicuous imbricate brown bracts when young, growing out at anthesis; peduncles 3–4.5 mm long; heads globular, 6–8-flowered, cream; bracteoles absent. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. ⅓ length of petals, free or occasionally 2 united for ¼–½ of their length; petals elliptic, 2–2.5 mm long, 1.3–1.5 mm wide. Pods linear, terete to compressed, not or scarcely constricted between seeds, 3–8 cm long, 3–3.5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous to thinly crustaceous, dark greyish brown (red when very young). Seeds longitudinal, obloid to obloid-ellipsoid, 3–3.5 mm long, dark brown; aril clavate, c. ½ as long as seed, creamy white tinged brown (when dry).
Grows in sand, loam or laterite, in Eucalyptus woodland, open scrub or heath.
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