Erect or sometimes trailing multistemmed subshrub 0.15-0.6 m high, sometimes rhizomatous, glabrous. Stems frequently flexuose, terete, obscurely nerved, green to glaucous. Phyllodes resembling stems, distant, ±sessile, ascending to erect, terete, 2-7 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, sometimes uncinate, 4-nerved but nerves not or scarcely evident. Inflorescences 2-4-headed racemes; raceme axes short, enclosed when young by conspicuous imbricate bracts; peduncles 7-13 mm long; heads globular, 6-11-flowered, golden; bracteoles absent. Sepals united, minute, membranous, repand; petals absent. Pods linear to narrowly oblong, to c. 8 cm long, 4-5 mm wide, crustaceous; margins thick. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, c. 4 mm long, dull to slightly shiny, brown (? or black); aril terminal.
Commonly grows on laterite or lateritic sand or loam, in Eucalyptus woodland, scrub or heath; sometimes in rocky, sandy clay in open Wandoo (Eucalyptus wandoo ) woodland.
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