Shrub to c. 1 m diam., prostrate, glabrous or shortly hispid with white hairs on branchlets, peduncles and phyllodes. Stipules erect, subulate, 1.5–2 mm long. Phyllodes 6–9 per whorl, spreading to ascending, uncinate with mucro 0.2–0.5 mm long, terete, commonly 8–16 mm long, with 1 adaxial and 2 abaxial grooves. Peduncles 13–37 mm long, glabrous or sparsely or moderately hispid. Heads commonly 20–25-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.5 mm long, glabrous; calyx lobes triangular with prominent midrib; corolla 2–2.3 mm long, striate throughout, glabrous or shortly hispid. Pods stipitate, 1.5–5 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, glabrous; margins slightly thickened. Seeds (not seen mature) to 12 per pod, longitudinal; pleurogram open.
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