Spindly glabrous shrub 1–3 m high, sometimes slender tree to 5 m high, prostrate in exposed coastal situation. Branchlets glabrous. Phyllodes oblong-elliptic to narrowly elliptic, commonly slightly incurved, (0.8–) 3–7 (–8.2) cm long, (2–) 4–10 (–13) mm wide, acute or obtuse and mucronulate, coriaceous, with (1 or) 3 main veins and few ± obscure longitudinally anastomosing minor veins in between; gland 1–10 mm above pulvinus, often 1 or 2 others along adaxial margin. Inflorescences simple or occasionally 1‑headed racemes with axes to 2 mm long, 1 or 2 per node; peduncles 2–7 mm long; basal bract persistent; heads globular, 4–6 mm diam., 25–40-flowered, golden; bracteoles acute to short-acuminate, normally evident in buds. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, raised over and constricted between seeds, to 6.5 cm long, 3–6 (–7) mm wide, chartaceous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 4–5.5 mm long, dull, black; aril clavate.
Grows on stony hills and slopes in sandstone country and, in drier areas, in lateritic soil in open woodland.
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