Erect, erect-spreading or straggling shrub to 2 (–2.5) m high, often multi-stemmed, often with root suckering. Bark smooth. Branchlets angled apically, clothed with short stiff hairs to 0.2 mm long, with prevalent lenticels; phyllode bases persistent. Bipinnate leaves sometimes present. Phyllodes crowded, erect or retrorse, linear, straight to slightly curved, subterete to ± flattened, (1–) 2–5 (–6.5) cm long, 0.4–1.2 mm wide, with curved mucro (0.2–0.5 mm long), glabrous or almost so; midrib obscure; gland not prominent, 0.5–7 mm above the slightly hairy pulvinus. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes (0.3–) 1.5–3 (–7) cm long, puberulous to glabrous; peduncles 2–4.5 mm long, puberulous to glabrous; heads globular, 4–6 (–8)-flowered, yellow to dark yellow. Flowers 5-merous; calyx membranous, dissected to ¼–⅖ of its length, with broadly deltate lobes and tube slightly hairy. Legumes narrowly oblong, scarcely constricted between seeds, flat, to 8.5 cm long, 4–7 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, light brown, smooth. Seeds longitudinal, black; areole narrowly elliptic-oblong.
Grows in eucalypt woodland and open forest or shrub-dominated vegetation (dry sclerophyll communities), often in disturbed remnant vegetation on roadsides, near infrastructure and in forestry plantations, in sandy to clayey soils; sometimes locally common or abundant. See Tindale et al. (1992) and Medd (2020) for further details on habitat.
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