Sprawling, prickly shrub (0.5–) 1–2 m high, the senescent phyllodes persisting on lower branches below the living crown. New shoots red when first initiated. Branchlets shallowly flexuose, glabrous. Phyllodes continuous with branches and bifariously decurrent to form opposite wings along the branches, the wings 2–10 mm wide, coriaceous, glaucous to subglaucous, glabrous and ±lightly pruinose; free portion of phyllodes bearing 2 or 3 prominent, rigid, brown spines 3–6 (–8) mm long, marginal vein yellow, with 1 or 2 main veins, the minor veins often sparingly bifurcating; gland single, sessile and plane, 1–6 mm above base. Inflorescences simple or rudimentary racemes with axis
Grows in loam or silt on banded ironstone ridges of hematite and magnetite, typically high in the landscape, in shrubland or thickets with Acacia, Allocasuarina and/or Eucalyptus spp.
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