Compact densely branching shrub 0.3–1 m tall. Branchlets pubescent to villous; hairs golden or white on young growth. Phyllodes crowded at ends of branchlets, on short stem-projections, ascending, linear to linear-oblanceolate, mostly 1–2 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, excentrically mucronulate to rostriform, grey-green, pubescent to minutely villous, ±glabrescent, with 1–3 ±indistinct main longitudinal nerves and few secondary nerves. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles mostly 7–10 mm long, puberulous to villous with golden or white hairs; basal bract persistent; heads globular, 5–6 mm diam., mostly 30–45-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free or shortly united at base. Pods linear to narrowly oblong, ±curved, undulate, 2–3.5 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, villous. Seeds not seen.