Multistemmed, glaucous shrub 0.3–2 m high. Bark smooth, grey-brown, greenish brown or yellow-brown. Branchlets terete, pilose with soft white hairs; ridges inconspicuous. Young foliage-tips greenish white, pilose. Leaves herbaceous or subcoriaceous, ±silvery glaucous; petiole 0.1–0.6 cm long, terete, shortly pilose, mostly with a raised glabrous or pilose orbicular gland c. 0.1–0.3 mm diam. at base of or just below lowest pair of pinnae; rachis (0.2–) 0.5–1.5 (–2.3) cm long, shortly pilose, occasionally with a similar gland at base of apical pair of pinnae; interjugary glands absent; pinnae 2–4 (–5) pairs, (0.5–) 0.8–1.5 (–2) cm long; pinnules 5–11 pairs, narrowly oblanceolate or oblanceolate, sometimes cultrate, 2–7 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, with often slightly recurved margins, glabrous or very sparsely pilose towards apex and on margins, with midvein obscure, almost central, apically acute, bluntly apiculate or broadly rounded. Inflorescences in axillary racemes or mainly terminal false-panicles. Peduncles 2.5–5 mm long. Heads globular, 11–22-flowered, golden or yellow. Pods often curved, 4–10 cm long, 4–7 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, brownish black, ±blue-pruinose, villous or pilose.
Grows in ironbark eucalypt (Eucalyptus melanophloia, etc.)–Callitris columellaris –Casuarina woodland, in sandy, loam or gravelly soils.
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