Much-branched ±spreading shrub 0.2–0.6 m tall. Branchlets ±slender, ±straight, patent to erect, often spinescent, hirsutellous to hirtellous, with hairs sometimes stellate. Phyllodes inequilaterally obtriangular, with upper margin forming a prominent rounded angle and lower margin shallowly convex, 2–5 mm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, ending in a short mucronate or sometimes ±pungent point, slightly thickened, ±hirsutellous to hirtellous, ±obscurely 1-or 2-nerved with main nerve near abaxial margin. Inflorescences rudimentary 1-headed racemes with axes more than 0.5 mm long; peduncles 2–5 mm long, sparsely to moderately hirsutellous to hirtellous; basal bracts 2, persistent; heads globular, 3–4 mm diam., 10–17-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ⅓–⅔-united, ¼–⅓ length of petals; petals nerveless, glabrous. Pods closely coiled, to c. 8 mm long (unexpanded), 2–2.5 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, red-brown, glabrous or hirtellous. Seeds longitudinal, 2–3 mm long, brown mottled black; aril oblique, thick.
Grows in often stony or lateritic loam, sometimes in sand, in Melaleuca heath and eucalypt woodland, on low rocky hills.
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