Dense spreading shrub to 1.5 m high. Branchlets asperulate, reddish brown, ribbed. Phyllodes subsessile, patent to inclined, straight to shallowly recurved, subterete to compressed, 2–4.5 cm long, 1–1.3 mm wide, pungent, rigid, glabrous, asperulate, sometimes viscid, with 10–12 distant raised asperulate veins. Inflorescences simple, 1–4 per axil; peduncles 3–5 mm long, somewhat thick, appressed-puberulous; heads globular, 3.5–4.5 mm diam., ±20-flowered, bright yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods undulate, to ±2 cm long, 2 mm wide, coriaceous, brown with thickened yellow margins, sparsely appressed-puberulous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, ±3 mm long, dull, dark brown to black; aril apical.