Shrub to c. 0.6 m tall. Branchlets normally red-brown to light brown, puberulous with antrorse to ±patent hairs. Stipules setaceous to narrowly triangular, 2.5–4 mm long. Phyllodes often crowded, patent, narrowly semi-trullate with a prominent gland-angle on adaxial margin near base, 6–8 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, acuminate, pungent, with slender, c. 1 mm long cusp, rigid, green, glabrous; midrib prominent, central; lateral nerves absent. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 5–10 mm long, puberulous; heads globular, 4-flowered, pale yellow. Flowers 4-merous; sepals united. Pods terete, narrowed at both ends, curved, to 7.5 cm long and 3.5 mm wide, red-brown, striate, subglabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 4–5 mm long; aril terminal, conical.