Glabrous multistemmed subshrub 0.2–0.5 m high. Branchlets normally slightly flexuose, finely ribbed, variably pruinose. Stipules ± spinose, 1.5–4 mm long, slender, straight or recurved. Phyllodes erect, terete to compressed, occasionally flat, 8–27 mm long, 0.7–1.5 mm wide, pungent with slender cusp, green to greyish green, minutely papillose over the very obscure 4 or 5 veins, finely longitudinally sulcate when dry. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 4–8 mm long; heads globular, 23–30-flowered, bright light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ± free; petals nerveless. Pods narrowed at both ends, shallowly curved, ± terete, to 10 cm long, 3–3.5 mm wide, subwoody, red-brown. Seeds longitudinal, narrowly oblong, 4–5 mm long, dull, yellowish brown; aril terminal, conical.
Commonly grows in laterite or sand over laterite in Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata), Marri (Corymbia calophylla) or Wandoo (E. wandoo) woodland or forest. Around Mount Lesueur it occurs in heath while in the Darling Ra. near Perth it may occur in sandy clay around granite outcrops.
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