Dense spreading shrub 0.5–1.7 m high. Branchlets compressed at first, ribbed, commonly minutely appressed-puberulous often towards apices and in phyllode-axils. Stipules ±persistent, 1.5–3 mm long. Phyllodes on raised stem-projections, erect, narrowly oblong to linear, straight to shallowly incurved, often biconvex, 1.5–4 cm long, 2–3.5 mm wide, narrowed at base, obtuse, inconspicuously mucronulate, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib not prominent; lateral nerves ±absent; gland inconspicuous, 1–4 mm above base. Inflorescences normally rudimentary 2-headed racemes with axes to 0.5 mm long and which sometimes grow out at anthesis; peduncles mostly 4–10 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 4–4.5 mm diam., 15–22-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods commonly circinnate to semi-circinnate, to 3 cm long, 4–4.5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic, 2.5 mm long, glossy, grey-brown, becoming dark brown; aril subterminal, linear-clavate, ¾ to as long as seed, creamy white.
Grows on flat or gently undulating plains, in red-brown clay to sandy loam, in low eucalypt woodland or scrub mallee or low Casuarina scrub.
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