Dense, round, spreading shrub 1–3 m tall. Branchlets sparsely to densely puberulous, the hairs short or long, straight to slightly curved and closely appressed (or sometimes subappressed). New shoots commonly pale yellow, but varying from white to golden. Phyllodes often obovate to oblanceolate but range from oblong to oblong-elliptic, (1–) 1.5–3 (–3.5) cm long, 5–10 (–14) mm wide, rounded to obtuse-mucronate, grey-green to glaucous, with indumentum similar to branchlets, rarely ±glabrous, 1-nerved per face; lateral nerves not prominent. Inflorescences 1–6-headed racemes; raceme axes 0.5–2 (–5) mm long, hairy, sometimes glabrous; peduncles (3–) 4–12 (–15) mm long, slender, hairy, sometimes glabrous; heads globular, (18–) 20–36 (–38)-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals variably united. Pods linear, rarely submoniliform, to 9 cm long, (4–) 5–8 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to coriaceous, dark brown or black, often very lightly pruinose, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, 4–5.5 mm long, subshiny, brown to black, punctate about centre, arillate.
Grows in undulating country, in soils derived from limestone and schist (meta-sediments), in woodland, sandy heath-woodland and tall shrubland, often with mallee eucalypts.
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