Decumbent to spreading, perennial herb with a woody rootstock or taproot; young stems ridged, green, strigose with appressed, equally biramous hairs. Leaves simple; stipules linear, 1.5–2.5 mm long, bearing biramous hairs and few to many linear to clavate multicellular hairs, semipersistent; petiole 2.5–3.5 mm long. Lamina elliptic or narrowly elliptic, (13–) 25–41 mm long, (7–) 10–16 (–19) mm wide; upper surface green, glabrous; lower surface green, slightly paler than above, with sparse, appressed hairs; apex obtuse and very shortly apiculate; veins not particularly prominent. Inflorescences (30–) 43–58 (–67) mm long, longer than the leaf; peduncle 6–17 mm long, axis ridged, angular; bracts triangular, c. 0.6 mm long, rarely persistent; flowers pink to purple, pedicel 0.5–1 mm long. Calyx 2.1–2.5 mm long, with subequal lobes longer than the length of the tube and moderately dense, white, appressed hairs. Standard pink to purplish, suborbicular, c. 4.5 mm high, 4 mm wide. Wings narrowly obovate to spathulate, 4–4.5 mm long, 1–1.2 mm wide. Keel 5–6 mm long, 1.5–2 mm deep; lateral pockets c. 0.9 mm long; apex acute; hairs moderately dense to dense, hyaline to brownish, at the tip and along the bottom; margin ciliate. Staminal tube c. 3 mm long. Ovary glabrous. Pods mostly ascending, ± terete, 21–35 mm long, c. 2 mm deep, brown, glabrous; apex shortly beaked; endocarp spotted; seeds c. 7–9 per fruit.
Recorded from coastal sand dunes, sandplains in Acacia low open woodlands, and on damp ground under a woodland of Melaleuca viridiflora and Corymbia species.
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