Shrub 0.5–2 m tall, bushy, rounded or obconical. Branchlets sericeous between resin-ribs at extremities. Phyllodes patent to ascending, straight to very shallowly incurved, terete, 2.5–6 cm long, 0.5–0.7 mm diam., slender, green, glabrous or sparsely appressed-hairy in shallow narrow furrows between the nerves, resinous (at least when young); nerves 8, broad, ±flat-topped, not or scarcely raised. Inflorescences simple, mostly solitary; heads sessile, globular to subglobular, 4.5–6 mm diam., 12–20-flowered, golden. Flowers 4-merous; sepals ¾-united. Pods erect, linear, slightly raised over and slightly constricted between seeds, straight to shallowly curved, to 5 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, minutely appressed-puberulous on lateral faces, ±resinous; margins wide. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic, 2–2.5 mm long, glossy, mottled; aril terminal, bluntly conical, nearly as long as seed, white.
This species grows commonly in association with granite, on or near outcrops, in Melaleuca shrubland with Eucalyptus stowardii and Casuarina spp., and also in gravelly loam in low heath.
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