Spreading often domed much-branched shrub 0.1-0.5 m high. Branchlets often ±pungent, hirtellous to pubescent, with hairs infrequently appressed. Phyllodes inequilaterally obtriangular to obdeltate, with upper margin forming a prominent rounded angle above middle of phyllode and lower margin ending in a straight or shallowly recurved ±pungent mucro, 3-6 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, hirtellous, occasionally subglabrous; main nerve ±prominent or obscure and central or towards abaxial margin, with other nerves absent or few and obscure; gland 1-3 mm above base. Inflorescences rudimentary 1-headed racemes with axes to c. 1 mm long; peduncles 4-10 mm long, hairy or glabrous; basal bracts 2 or 3, brown; heads globular, 3-4 mm diam., 8-15-flowered, lemon yellow or golden; bracteoles absent. Flowers mostly 5-merous; sepals 1/2-3/4-united. Pods prominently rounded over seeds on alternate sides, curved to openly once-coiled, to 3 cm long, 3-3.5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous or hairy. Seeds longitudinal, ±planoconvex, 2.5-3 mm long, dull, black, rugulose; aril terminal.
Grows in sand, sandy gravel, gravel, sandy clay and clay, in heath under open eucalypt scrub.
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