Shrub to 0.5 m high, spreading. Branchlets glabrous or hairy, occasionally glaucous. Stipules (0.5–) 1–2 (–3) mm long, scarious. Phyllodes 5–9 per whorl, slightly flattened, straight or slightly recurved, 2–8 mm long, 0.3–0.5 mm wide, abruptly contracted into a very short mucro 0.1–0.2 mm long, puberulous, pilose or glabrous, with an impressed adaxial vein, obscurely ribbed beneath. Peduncles 4–15 mm long, glabrous or hairy. Heads 10–25-flowered. Flowers 5-or 6-merous, striate; calyx 0.6–1.4 mm long, thick, striate; calyx lobes broadly triangular; corolla lobes striate, hispid to almost glabrous. Pods stipitate, linear, straight to curved, to 50 mm long, 4–6 mm wide, ± pruinose, glabrous, somewhat viscid; margins nerve-like. Seeds longitudinal, 3.5–5 mm long; pleurogram closed.
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