Small, dense, much branched, spreading, prickly shrubs to 1.5 m high and usually spreading the same or more across; branchlets reddish-brown, striate, asperulate. <P>Phyllodes linear, 2-4.5 cm long, c. 1 mm diam., straight or slightly curved, rigid, almost terete, asperulate, veins longitudinal, 10-12 and prominent, apex contracting suddenly into a sharp reddish-brown, rigid point. <P>Inflorescences simple and axillary, solitary, mostly twin, or sometimes ternate; flower-heads globular, bright yellow, c. 20-flowered; peduncles some-what thick, c. 5 mm long, covered with short whitish hairs; flowers 5-merous. <P>Legumes small, 15-20 mm long, c. 2 mm broad, prominently undulate, biconvex, light brown with a few scattered hairs; margins prominent, thickened and pale yellow. Seeds longitudinal in legume, obloid-ellipsoid; funicle very short, terminating into a fleshy aril.