Glabrous open shrub to c. 1 m tall. Branchlets prominently striate-ribbed. Phyllodes ±oblique, elliptic to narrowly elliptic with some tending obovate to oblanceolate, sometimes lanceolate, straight or falcately recurved, 4–12 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide, l:w ratio = 2–4, unequal at base, slightly undulate, obtusely mucronate to acute with indurate mucro, glaucous to subglaucous; midrib prominent, normally shortly concurrent with abaxial margin at base; marginal nerves prominent; lateral nerves obscure; gland prominent, 0–4 (–8) mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences 3–14-headed racemes; raceme axes (0.2–) 0.5–3 (–3.3) cm long; peduncles 5–7 mm long; heads globular, rather loosely 5–7-flowered, cream to creamy yellow. Flowers 4‑merous; sepals ⅕–⅓ length of corolla, united into a ±truncate to sinuously lobed calyx. Pods erect, linear, curved, to 7 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, crustaceous to subwoody; marginal nerve thick, undulate. Seeds longitudinal, narrowly oblong, 5–6 mm long, shiny, dark brown; aril terminal.
Grows in laterite or sand over laterite, on ridges or in gullies, in low Eucalyptus woodland or tall open shrubland with an understorey of low open heath.
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