Shrub 0.2–1.5 m high. Branchlets usually densely pubescent with the hairs subappressed. Phyllodes narrowly linear, flat to almost terete, usually 2–7 cm long and 1–2 mm wide, acute to subacute, excentrically mucronate, innocuous to coarsely pungent, green to glaucous, frequently drying greyish, with indumentum as on branchlets but hairs sparse or absent with age (young phyllodes rarely glabrous), 5-veined in all, 1-veined per face when flat, with the 2-veined upper margin of flat phyllodes c. 0.5 mm wide; gland 5–15 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences rudimentary, 2-branched racemes with axes to 0.5 mm long; peduncles 3–15 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 3.5–4 mm diam., 15–20-flowered, light golden; bracteoles few or absent. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, biconvex, ± shallowly curved, to 5.5 cm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, glabrous to moderately puberulous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 2.5–3 mm long, mottled; aril terminal, conical.
Grows in moderate to well-drained loam, sandy loam or clay loam, in low eucalypt woodland or open shrub mallee, on plains and alluvial flats.
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