Prostrate shrub forming dense intricate mats to 0.2 m high. Branchlets short, straight, spinescent, obscurely ribbed to ribless, appressed-puberulous to glabrous. Phyllodes straight to shallowly incurved with apices often slightly recurved, semi-terete to compressed and linear, 4–11 mm long, 0.4–0.7 mm wide, green, ±glabrous, veinless or with obscure midrib; gland inconspicuous, c. 1 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences rudimentary 1-headed racemes with axes > 0.5 mm long; peduncles 2–6 mm long, slender, glabrous; basal bracts brown; heads globular, 2–2.5 mm diam., 6-or 7-flowered, golden. Flowers 4-or 5-merous; sepals irregularly ¼–¾-united. Pods somewhat tightly and irregularly coiled, to 1 cm long (unexpanded), c. 2.5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, turgid, widely elliptic to widely ovate, obliquely truncate adjacent to aril, 2–2.5 mm long, semi-shiny, dark brown.
Grows in gravelly clay loam, loam, sand or shallow sand over clay loam, in Wandoo (Eucalyptus wandoo) woodland and frequently on disturbed roadsides.
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