Rounded shrub 1–2 m high. Branchlets terete with low ridges, glabrous except nodes appressed-puberulous. Phyllodes ascending, oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, gently incurved, commonly 2–7 cm long, 2–6 mm wide, with rounded-obtuse apex, callose-mucronulate, rigid, thick and ±fleshy, appressed-puberulous on pulvinus and blade-base otherwise glabrous, with 2–7 immersed to slightly raised distant main veins and the venules often appearing as irregular incomplete lines; gland 2–9 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple; peduncles mostly 2–4 mm long, appressed-puberulous; heads globular, 3.5–4 mm diam., 7–17-flowered, golden, subtended by ±5 sterile bracteoles; bracteoles thick, ovate, acute, at or near peduncle apex, with those in heads peltate-spathulate. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, white-resinous. Pods linear, curved and twisted, to 6 cm long, mostly 2–3 mm wide, rigid, crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic, 3.5–4 mm long, black; funicle fleshy; aril small, apical.
Grows mostly in sand and loam, in shrubland and woodland, often associated with Lerp mallee (Eucalyptus incrassata ).
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