Diffuse or low-domed shrub 0.3–0.5 m high, rarely prostrate. Branches puberulous, the hairs patent to retrorsely ±appressed, sometimes dividing into short, wide-spreading, straight, rigid, innocuous or ±coarsely pungent branchlets. Stipules 0.8–2 mm long, innocuous to slightly pungent. Phyllodes in nodose fascicles of 2–5 (–8), single on new shoots, mostly oblong to narrowly oblong, oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 3–7 (–9) mm long, 1–2 mm wide, l: w = 1.5–4, obtuse to subacute and innocuous, straight to shallowly incurved, ±patent to somewhat reflexed, glabrous or ±appressed-hairy mostly on margins and midrib; midrib not prominent; gland 1–2 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences simple; peduncles (4–) 5–9 mm long, slender, strongly recurved in pod; heads globular, 3–4 mm diam., (17–) 20–28-flowered; bracteoles 1 mm long, the laminae ovate-lanceolate and c. 0.3 mm wide. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods narrowly oblong to submoniliform, 10–25 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, straight to curved, pure brown, normally glabrous, veinless or obscurely reticulately veined (veins not longitudinally aligned). Seeds dark brown to blackish and clearly mottled dull yellow; aril dull cream.
Grows on gentle slopes in often stony, gritty sand, sandy loam, sandy clay or clay over granite or gneiss, in very open Mallee woodland over heath scrub.
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