Shrub to c. 1 m diam., prostrate, with branchlets phyllodes and corolla apex openly hispid. Stipules spreading, subulate, c. 1 mm long. Phyllodes 9–12 per whorl, spreading to ascending, flattened, commonly 8–15 mm long, with straight or slightly curved mucro 0.2–0.3 mm long, with 1 adaxial and 2 abaxial grooves. Peduncles 10–26 mm long, hispid. Heads commonly 16–21-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.8 mm long, glabrous; calyx lobes very short, rounded-irregular, without midrib; corolla striate throughout, hispid at apex, otherwise glabrous. Pods stipitate, 3–4 cm long, glabrous; margins slightly thickened. Seeds to c. 6 per pod, longitudinal, 3–4 mm long; pleurogram closed.
Growing in alluvial sand over sandstone rocks and amongst broken sandstone, in open woodland–shrubland, often with hummock gasses.
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