Multistemmed shrub 0.6–2 m high, bipinnate foliage sometimes persistent. Branchlets shortly ± villous. Phyllodes crowded, some irregularly verticillate or clustered, on short stem-projections, ascending to erect, linear to very narrowly elliptic or linear-oblanceolate, straight to shallowly incurved, flat, 10–25 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, acute and obliquely mucronate, subglabrous or with sparse, spreading hairs, finely rugulose when dry; obscurely 1-veined, midrib central or excentric; gland inconspicuous, 3–8 mm above pulvinus, sometimes absent. Inflorescences normally 1–3-headed racemes 3–15 mm long, interspersed with some simple ones; peduncles 3–11 mm long, stout, shortly ± villous; heads globular, 30–40-flowered, yellow to bright yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ⅔–⅚-united; petals ciliolate towards apices. Pods narrowly oblong, irregularly curved or twisted, 3–9 cm long, 4–6 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, dark brown to blackish, shortly ± villous but indumentum sometimes sparse. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, 4–5 mm long, shiny, black; aril clavate.
Grows on elevated tablelands (900–1200 m) in acidic soils derived from granite, in heath, dry sclerophyll forest and woodland.
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