Rounded or obconic shrub to 3.5 m high, stems not fluted. Branchlets glabrous. Phyllodes ascending to erect, linear to narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblanceolate, ±straight, (3–) 4–8 (–10) cm long, 3–7 (–10) mm wide, acute to acuminate with recurved to uncinate and innocuous tip, glabrous; veins numerous, ±close, parallel, non-anastomosing, with the central one slightly more pronounced than the rest. Inflorescences 2 (–4)-headed racemes; raceme axes 2–5 mm long and terminated by a resinous vegetative bud; peduncles 4–8 mm long, appressed-puberulous or glabrous; heads globular, 3.5–4 mm diam., ±45-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods narrowly oblong, not constricted between seeds and slightly raised over them, to 7 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, ±chartaceous, red-brown, glabrous to subglabrous. Seeds transverse to oblique, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 3–4.5 mm long, shiny, brown to blackish; aril clavate.
Grows in low hilly country in loam or clay, often over greenstone or granite, mostly in mallee woodland or shrubland.
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