Erect shrub 0.3-0.5 m high, sometimes taller. Branches orange-brown. Branchlets antrorsely puberulous, with hairs often appressed. Stipules narrowly triangular, sometimes setaceous, 1-2 mm long, spreading, often incurved. Phyllodes patent, sometimes reflexed, narrowly semi-trullate with a slight gland-angle on adaxial margin near base, sometimes triangular-lanceolate without gland-angle, 5-10 mm long, 1.3-2 mm wide, pungent with a slender 0.5-1.5 mm long cusp, rigid, green, glabrous or subglabrous; midrib prominent; lateral nerves absent. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 3-8 mm long, densely puberulous with straight patent hairs; heads globular, 5-8-flowered, cream to white. Flowers 4-merous; sepals c. 1/2-united, with lobes triangular; petals puberulous, 1-nerved. Pods terete, narrowed at both ends, to 7.5 cm long, 2-3 mm diam., red-brown, striate, finely appressed-puberulous. Seeds ±oblong, 4 mm long; aril terminal, conical.
Grows in sand in open heath, frequently fringing seasonally dry swamps, and in sand over laterite in shallow depressions in open Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) forest.
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