Erect shrub 0.3-0.6 m high with a rush-like habit, sometimes to 1 m high or stems scrambling. Stipules minute. Phyllodes continuous with branchlets, bifariously decurrent forming opposite wings with each one extending to the next below; wings 1-5 (-15) mm wide, grey-green to glaucous, glabrous, rarely hairy; free portion of phyllode usually 5-20 mm long, acute, with a nerve close to upper margin; gland absent. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes 2-11 cm long, commonly narrowly winged, if wings expand the peduncles appear simple and axillary; peduncles twinned, 6-15 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 13-21-flowered, white, cream or pale lemon yellow; buds normally acute to subacute. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united. Pods curved, flat, to 6 cm long, 10-15 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, normally glabrous; margins thick. Seeds transverse, ±oblong, 5-6 mm long, arillate.
Grows in sand, loam and lateritic soils, often in winter wet depressions, usually in woodland.
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