Prostrate, domed or spreading shrub to 0.8 m high. Branchlets densely pilose to pubescent. Stipules caducous. Phyllodes crowded, scattered or irregularly verticillate, on raised stem-projections, patent to erect, linear, straight to shallowly incurved, subterete to flat, 1–2 cm long, 0.7–1 (–1.5) mm wide, narrowed at base, acute, obliquely mucronate, usually pilose, 4-veined in all, 1-veined per face when flat with midrib not prominent; gland inconspicuous, commonly 4–12 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences rudimentary racemes, normally 2-headed with axes c. 0.2 mm long; peduncles 7–17 mm long, glabrous, recurved from base in fruit; heads globular, 4–4.5 mm diam., 20–32-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, circinnate to coiled, biconvex, 2–2.5 mm wide, crustaceous-coriaceous, black, glabrous or sparsely puberulous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to broadly elliptic, 2–2.5 mm long, mottled; aril thick.
Grows in calcareous or clay loam, sometimes with sand or gravel, in low mallee woodland, low heath or open dwarf scrub on flatlands.
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