Dense, domed or flat-topped dwarf shrub 0.1-0.5 m high, to 1 m wide. Branchlets puberulous. Phyllodes straight to shallowly incurved, usually terete, often drying subquadrangular/triquetrous, rarely flat, 1-2.5 cm long, usually 1-2 mm wide, often subuncinate, with mucro sometimes coarsely pungent, coriaceous, ±appressed-hairy at least when young, 4-nerved in all; midrib prominently raised on each face when flat and often excentric; gland 3-8 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences rudimentary 2-headed racemes with axes to 0.5 mm long; peduncles 7-20 mm long, glabrous, deflexed from base in fruit; heads globular, 4-5 mm diam., usually 16-21-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, biconvex, strongly curved to once-coiled, to c. 2 cm long, 2 mm wide, thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, blackish, moderately ±appressed-pubescent. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 2 mm long, shiny, dark brown; aril terminal, subconical, white tinged yellow.
Grows in sand, sand over clay, clay loam, loam over ironstone and gravelly ironstone, on plains and hillocks in undulating plains, in open heath, eucalypt woodland and shrub mallee.
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