Shrub to 2.5 m high, spreading, slightly resinous. Bark ± smooth, dark grey. Branchlets angular, glabrous or sparsely appressed hairy. Phyllodes crowded, single, occasionally a few paired or ± verticillate, linear to narrowly oblong, straight to slightly incurved, often erect, flat, 1–4 (–5) cm long, 0.4–2 (–3) mm wide, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, with 1 prominent ± central vein, sometimes with 2 obscure subprominent veins; gland 1, basal, minute, 1.5–4 mm above pulvinus. Peduncles 4–12 mm long, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Spikes mostly single in axils, 2–4.3 cm long, interrupted, golden. Flowers 5-merous; calyx c. 0.2–0.3 mm long, with free slender glabrous sepals; corolla c. 1–1.2 mm long, dissected to ⅓–½ of length, apically swollen, ± glabrous; ovary glabrous. Pods constricted between and raised over seeds, substraight to curved, openly coiled following dehiscence, 3.5–10 cm long, 1.5–3 mm wide. Seeds longitudinal, narrowly oblong-elliptic, 2.3–2.8 mm long, brownish black; areole closed.
Grows usually in sandstone derived soils, on plateaux or in crevices, among rocks and crevices, and in sand beside creeks.
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