Spreading or dense rigid shrub, 0.6-2 m tall, 0.7-2 m diam., non-lignotuberous. Branchlets appressed-pubescent, red. Leaves rigid, 4-10 cm long, pinnatisect, grooved basally above, appressed-pubescent, quickly glabrescent; segments 5-14, 1-2.5 mm wide; mucro 2-3.5 mm long. Inflorescence with 18-22 flowers; involucre 6.5-8 mm long; bracts densely woolly-tomentose, with white hairs on lower bracts, ferruginous hairs on upper bracts; rachis 2.5-4 mm long, villous; pedicels 3-6 mm long. Perianth 2-4 mm long, white to yellow. Pistil 5.5-8 mm long; ovary ?glandular-pubescent; gland absent. Fruit obliquely ovate, 1.5-2 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, black-pusticulate, pubescent; horns 3.5-4.5 mm long. Seed obliquely obovate, 9-13 mm long; wing broadly down one side, narrowly down other or encircling seed body.
Recorded from gravel loam, sand, sandy loam with lateritic gravel or pebbles, in scrub, closed heath, open Eucalyptus eremophila mallee or Casuarina acutivalvis shrubland.
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