Dense, intricate, spreading, glabrous, often domed shrub 0.1-0.4 m high; terminal branches often arching downwards. Phyllodes some or all fasciculate or crowded on short or nodose branchlets, obtriangular to cuneate or oblanceolate, 1.5-2.5 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, rounded at excentrically rostriform apices, thick, drying slightly wrinkled, nerveless. Inflorescences simple, solitary at or near apex of short lateral branchlets; peduncles 2-3.5 mm long, recurved in fruit; heads globular, 3-3.5 mm diam., 7-11-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free or united. Pods tightly spirally coiled, to c. 1 cm long (unexpanded); valves 2.5-3 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, blackish, slightly resinous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 3 mm long, dull, brown, minutely verruculose, exarillate.
Grows mostly in calcareous loam, less commonly in sand or clay, in open tree or shrub mallee and low eucalypt woodland, occasionally near margin of salt lakes.
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