Spreading shrub 1–3 m high. Bark of single trunk smooth, grey. Branchlets terete, reddish brown, blackish or dark red, glabrous; ridges inconspicuous. Young foliage-tips of bipinnate leaves reddish or green. Leaves coriaceous, reddish; petiole above pulvinus 1–4 (–4.5) cm long, vertically flattened, bearing 1 prominent oblong gland ¼–⅔ below lowest pair of pinnae, glabrous; rachis 1–4 cm long, eglandular or occasionally 1 small orbicular jugary gland at apex of some leaves, glabrous; pinnae 1–3 pairs, 1.5–4.5 cm long; pinnules 4–8 pairs, mostly ± oblong to narrowly oblong, (7–) 10–21 mm long, 4–8 (–10) mm wide, glabrous, with midvein closer to upper margin (in upper c. ⅓) and 2 ± parallel minor veins not reaching margin, with apex cordate or obtuse. Phyllodes 6–10.5 cm long, 4–7 mm wide, coriaceous, reddish; midrib acentral; apex ±acute; gland 1, large, 10–20 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences in axillary racemes, or terminal or occasionally axillary false-panicles. Heads 6–10 mm diam., 11–20-flowered, dark yellow. Pods 4–8.5 cm long, 6–10 mm wide, coriaceous to slightly woody, dark brown to black or red, glabrous; margins prominent.
Grows in heath and dry sclerophyll forest, often amongst granite boulders, on mountain slopes or at their bases, in shallow sandy soil.
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