Open normally single-stemmed shrub 0.2–0.5 m tall. Branchlets glabrous. Stipules persistent, erect, shallowly incurved, 4–8 mm long, sometimes ±pungent, thick, often yellow. Phyllodes ascending, normally oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 2–5.5 cm long, 4–15 (–23) mm wide, often slightly undulate, with coarsely pungent, frequently inflexed mucro, very thickly coriaceous, finely wrinkled when dry, glaucous or subglaucous, glabrous; midrib and margins prominent and normally yellowish; gland ±6 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences rudimentary, 2-headed racemes with axes c. 1 mm long; peduncles mostly 5.5–15 mm long, glabrous but with a dense tuft of hairs around base, recurved in fruit; heads globular, 5–7 mm diam., 20–40-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods narrowly oblong, not constricted between seeds, ±biconvex, to 6.5 cm long, 8–10 mm wide, hard and bony, glabrous. Seeds oblique, oblong to broadly elliptic, c. 5 mm long, dull, brown; aril terminal, pileiform.
Grows in sand, sandy loam or sandy clay or rocky clay, sometimes near salt lakes or salt flats, in tall mallee and heath.
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