Glabrous spreading shrub 0.1–0.5 (–1) m, high. Branchlets brownish red, sometimes shiny. Stipules persistent, narrowly triangular, 1.5–2 mm long. Phyllodes erect, straight or weakly curved, terete, commonly 1–2 cm long, 1–1.5 mm diam., obtuse-mucronulate, rigid, dark green, with 8 distant raised veins; stomata raised; gland inconspicuous, 4–10 mm above pulvinus at junction of 2 adaxial veins. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles commonly 7–12 mm long; basal bracts rostriform; heads globular, c. 3–4 mm diam., 20-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods narrowly oblong, undulate, to 2.5 cm long, c. 3 mm wide, coriaceous, somewhat shiny. Seeds longitudinal, ovate or widely elliptic, 2–2.5 mm long, subglossy, brown; aril subterminal.
Grows in rocky sand, rocky loam or sandy clay, in open mallee, dense low heath and open dwarf scrub.
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