Often rounded rather dense shrub 0.4–2 m high. Branchlets minutely woolly-tomentulose with crisped hairs; indumentum especially evident on new shoots. Phyllodes often ±patent and slightly undulate, commonly slightly asymmetric, ovate, elliptic or obovate, 1–2.5 cm long, 5–12 mm wide, l: w = 1–4, acute to obtuse, sometimes obliquely truncate, with slightly excentric mucro, coriaceous, green, sometimes subglaucous, minutely woolly-tomentulose when young, glabrous or subglabrous at maturity, 1-veined per face, sometimes indistinctly and imperfectly 2-veined; lateral veins absent or very obscure; gland near or above middle of phyllode, sometimes slightly raised above margin; rarely a few phyllodes with 2 glands. Inflorescences simple, mostly 2 per axil; peduncles 3–12 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 4–5 mm diam., 15–24-flowered, mid-golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods twisted to spirally coiled, terete, to c. 1 cm long (unexpanded), c. 3 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, woolly-tomentose, rarely glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic, 2–2.5 mm long, shiny, brown; aril galeiform, bright orange.
Grows in clayey sand, sandy clay loam and loam, in open eucalypt woodland, mallee woodland and Casuarina/Melaleuca uncinata shrubland with scattered Eucalyptus longicornis.
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