Dense, domed or obconic shrub mostly 0.5–1.7 m tall. Branchlets tomentulose to appressed-tomentulose. Stipules persistent, triangular, less than 1 mm long, thick, black. Phyllodes ascending to erect, ±recurved or straight, terete, (0.7–) 1–2.5 (–3) cm long, 1–1.5 (–2) mm wide, abruptly ±mucronate and sharply pungent, rigid, glabrous except pulvinus ±tomentulose, with 20 closely parallel nerves; stomata raised between nerves; gland single, 3–14 mm above pulvinus; pulvinus abruptly separated from blade, flared basally. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles 2–5 (–7) mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 3–4 mm diam., 7–12-flowered, golden. Flowers 5‑merous; sepals free. Pods oblong-linear, straight or slightly curved, subterete, 1.5–3.5 cm long, 2–3 (–4) mm wide, thick-crustaceous, venose longitudinally, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, narrowly oblong, 3–4 mm long, dull, dark brown to black; aril apical.
Grows in gravelly soil, loam, loamy clay and sand, in woodland, mallee and scrub.
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