Glabrous subshrub 0.1–0.5 m high, sometimes sprawling, single-or multistemmed from a woody root-stock. Branchlets prominently ribbed, pruinose. Stipules (2–) 3–8 (–10) mm long, spreading, slender, spinose. Phyllodes slightly inequilateral, narrowly elliptic, straight or shallowly incurved, 1–5 cm long, 4–12 (–16) mm wide, commonly acute, ± pungent, greyish green; midrib and marginal nerves prominent; lateral nerves obscure or absent; gland 2–12 mm above base. Inflorescences 2–4-headed often rudimentary racemes with axes 0.5–7 (–10) mm long; peduncles 5–18 mm long; heads showy, prolific, globular, loosely 7–12-flowered, bright golden. Flowers 4-merous; sepals c. ¾-united, with lobes broadly triangular. Pods narrowly oblong, twisted, to 5 cm long, 8–9 mm wide, ± woody, dark brown; margins thick. Seeds transverse, oblong to ± circular, 3.5–4 mm long, shiny, greyish brown; funicle flat and dilated at attachment to pod; aril dark brown (dry).
Grows in laterite or gravelly sand or sandy clay, frequently near watercourses, in Eucalyptus woodland or forest.
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