Shrub 1.5–3 m high, branching from base. Branchlets not prominently ribbed, puberulous, slightly resinous. Phyllodes patent to erect, linear to narrowly linear, straight to shallowly incurved, flat, 1–3 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, commonly narrowed at base, excentrically and obliquely mucronulate to rostellate, green, glabrous or subglabrous, obscurely 1–3-veined; midrib sometimes ±pronounced; gland minute, basal, sometimes with another at base of mucro. Inflorescences simple, single in upper axils; peduncles 4–6 (–9) mm long, glabrous to puberulous, ebracteate at base; heads globular, (15–) 20–30-flowered, golden, slightly resinous. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ⅔–¾-united, acute. Pods to 7 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, reddish brown, glabrous, subvernicose. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 2.5–4 mm long; aril oblique.
Common in sand in shrubby open forest near Chinchilla, and, in New South Wales, uncommon on sandplains in spinifex communities.
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