Spreading, multi-stemmed, resinous, viscid, aromatic (citrus odour), glabrous shrub 0.5–2 m high and to 2 (–4) m across, much branched, flat-topped. Bark fissured, grey-brown. Branchlets terete, obscurely ribbed. Phyllodes single or rarely two clustered at nodes, narrowly oblong-elliptic to linear but often broadest above the middle, (1.5–) 2–4 (–5.5) cm long, (1.5–) 2–4 (–5) mm wide, l: w = 6–20 (–30), flat, mostly shallowly incurved but often a few straight or shallowly sigmoid, bright green to dull greyish or subglaucous, with numerous, obscure or slightly pronounced longitudinal veins; apex coarsely to ±sharply pungent; glands obscure, 1–2 (–3), the lowermost 4–15 (–22) mm above pulvinus, occasionally absent. Inflorescences simple; peduncles (10–) 15–30 (–35) mm long; spikes 0.9–2.5 (–3) cm long, golden. Flowers 5‑merous; calyx 0.5–1.2 mm long, dissected to ½–⅘. Pods erect, linear-oblanceolate, basally tapered, flat, straight-sided, 2.5–5 cm long, 3–5 (–5.5) mm wide, woody, obliquely nerved, opening elastically from apex with dehisced valves recurved; margin thick and pale-coloured. Seeds oblique and seated in pronounced depressions, obloid-ellipsoid, 3.2–5 mm long, brown or olive-brown, with often darker, open areole; funicle-aril narrowly conical.
Grows in gravelly, red or brown, skeletal or stony sand soils, on quartzite or laterite, on rises near drainage lines, stony ridges or plains, in spinifex-shrubland, Acacia scrubland or savannah eucalypt woodland.
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