Weeping, multistemmed shrub 0.6–2.5 m high. Branchlets puberulous. Stipules 1–3 mm long. Phyllodes crowded, mostly ascending to erect, asymmetrically ovate to elliptic, 0.5–2 cm long, (3–) 5–11 mm wide, with unequal base, mostly ±undulate, acutely-to obtusely-mucronate, coriaceous, with indumentum of fine ±sparse straight appressed hairs; midrib slightly excentric; lateral veins obscure; gland not prominent, 0–1 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple or racemose; raceme axes 0.5–3 cm long; peduncles 1.5–10 mm long, puberulous; heads obloid to subglobular, to 6 mm long, 14–26-flowered, golden or rich lemon yellow. Flowers normally 5-merous; sepals ½–⅔-united. Pods narrowly oblong, to 5 cm long, (7–) 10–12 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, velvety with ferruginous to silvery-ferruginous hairs. Seeds transverse to oblique, ovate to oblong-elliptic, 4–6 mm long, somewhat shiny, black; aril clavate.
Usually grows on granitic slopes or in sheltered gullies, sometimes in heath on edges of swamps, in Eucalyptus forest or woodland, at about 1200 m alt.
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