Multistemmed prostrate or low-spreading shrub to 0.3 m high. Branchlets hirsutellous or hirsutellous and pilose intermixed. Stipules persistent, ±linear, 2–6 mm long. Phyllodes oblique, elliptic or narrowly elliptic to ±lanceolate, infrequently obovate or ±narrowly oblong, 1–3 cm long, 2–12 mm wide, ±undulate, acute to obtuse and apiculate-mucronulate, pilose or hirsutellous or a mixture of both, 1-veined per face; lateral nerves obscure. Inflorescences simple or in racemes 0.5–3 mm long, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles usually 1–2.5 cm long, with indumentum as on branchlets; heads globular, 4–4.5 mm diam., 10–20-flowered, pale yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ½–¾-united, with tube 5-veined and lobes acute; petals pilose to hirsutellous, 1-nerved. Pods narrowly oblong, straight or arcuate, 1–4 cm long, 5–7 mm wide, crustaceous to coriaceous, glabrous or pubescent as branchlets. Seeds transverse, oblong-elliptic, 3–3.5 mm long, shiny, black, arillate.
Grows in sand, sandy or gravelly clay, sandy loam and loam, mostly in mallee shrubland but also in heath, low scrub and open wandoo flats.
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