Prostrate domed or spreading shrub to 1 m tall. Branches dividing into numerous, rigid, ascending to erect, ±spinescent, green or subglaucous, glabrous, ±ribless branchlets, rarely narrowly winged or flexuose. Phyllodes few at base of terminal branchlets, absent from the upper inflorescence-bearing nodes, lanceolate to narrowly oblong-elliptic, infrequently linear, mostly 1–2 cm long and 2–4 mm wide, green to subglaucous, glabrous; midrib obscure; lateral nerves absent. Inflorescences normally 1-headed rudimentary racemes with axes 0.5–1 mm long; peduncles (3–) 4–9 mm long, glabrous, recurved in fruit; heads globular, 4–5 mm diam., normally 20–30-flowered, golden; young buds light orange or red. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods mostly narrowly oblong, prominently rounded over seeds, to 4 cm long, mostly 4–6 mm wide, thinly chartaceous and very brittle, glabrous. Seeds normally transverse, ovate to elliptic, 3–4 mm long, dull, black, exarillate; funicle filiform.
Grows in loam, clay loam, clay, sandy loam and sand, in open shrub mallee and woodland with various Eucalyptus species, on flat or gentle undulating plains.
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