Shrub to 0.5 m high; decumbent. Branchlets terete, velvety with white hairs, viscid. Stipules to c. 1 mm long. Phyllodes 13-19 per whorl, straight or slightly incurved in upper part, ±terete, 5-30 mm long, tapered at base, abruptly mucronate with mucro 0.2-0.5 mm long, sparsely hairy, viscid, with obscure venation. Peduncles 10-20 mm long, viscid. Heads 35-40-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 1.7-2.2 mm long; calyx lobes strongly incurved, lanceolate-ovate, obtuse, sparsely hairy; corolla lobes smooth, sparsely hairy. Pods sessile, flat, 11-27 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, viscid. Seeds longitudinal, c. 5 mm long, shiny, black, slightly viscid, ridged along middle; pleurogram obscure.
Grows on a granite rock outcrop at c. 440 m among Triodia sp. with a scattered overstorey of Eucalyptus , Grevillea , Acacia and Xanthorrhoea .
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