Shrub 0.3–1 m tall, sometimes semi-prostrate or to 2 m tall. Branchlets loosely villous to appressed-pilose with hairs curved to subcrisped, glabrescent. Stipules caducous, connate, c. 2 mm long. Phyllodes linear to narrowly oblong, channelled above or ±infolded (when dry), planoconvex to horizontally flattened, 5–25 mm long, 0.5–1.5 mm wide, fleshy, sulcate when dry, green; upper phyllodes loosely villous, subglabrescent; nerves obscure or absent; gland (obscure) on upper surface near apex of phyllode. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 4–10 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 3.5–4 mm diam., 18–33-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, scarcely constricted between seeds, ±arcuate to once-coiled, to 2.5 cm long, ±1.5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, longitudinally reticulate, glabrous or pubescent. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 2–2.5 mm long, arillate.
Grows on coastal cliffs and sand plains in northern areas; elsewhere it occurs on sandstone and lateritic hills, in heath and, on the Darling scarp, in wandoo and marri woodland where it may occur around granite outcrops.
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