Intricate glabrous shrubs 0.2–0.7 m tall. Branchlets numerous, short, divaricate, spinose, aphyllous, usually pruinose, ribbed. Phyllodes patent or somewhat reflexed, ovate to narrowly ovate, elliptic or almost oblong, 3.5–10 mm long, 2.5–5 mm wide, commonly slightly undulate, acute, mucronate, usually ±glaucous; midrib ±prominent; lateral nerves obscure. Inflorescences rudimentary normally 1-headed racemes with axes more than 0.5 mm long; peduncles 3–6 mm long, recurved at base in fruit; heads globular, 3.5–4.5 mm diam., 10–14-flowered, light golden; bracteoles absent. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ¾-united. Pods raised over seeds alternately on each side, strongly arcuate to openly 1½-coiled; valves irregularly twisted upon dehiscence, to c. 4 cm long (expanded length), 3–3.5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 2–2.5 mm long, shiny, obscurely mottled brown; aril terminal, rather large.
Grows in gravelly sand or loam, often on hilltops, in scrub, shrubland and eucalypt woodland.
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