Shrub 0.3-1 m high, rather dense, often slightly resinous. Branchlets sparsely to moderately puberulous with hairs normally appressed and often golden at extremities. Phyllodes patent to erect, filiform, incurved or if straight then often markedly curved upwards at base, ±terete, usually 1-3 cm long, 0.5 mm wide, excentrically mucronulate to rostriform, with mucro commonly blunt and indistinct, sometimes subuncinate, green, glabrous or subglabrous, indistinctly 5-or 7-nerved; gland obscure, 1-2 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences 1-or 2-headed racemes with axes 1-2 mm long, sometimes simple; peduncles 3-6 mm long, ±sparsely appressed-puberulous with golden and/or white hairs; basal bract solitary; heads globular, 13-23-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals 1/4-3/4-united. Pods (few seen) linear, curved or twisted, to 6 cm long, 2-3 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, viscid. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 4 mm long; aril terminal.
In sand, loam or clay, commonly in low-lying areas near watercourses, in Eucalyptus woodland or shrub or tree mallee associations.
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