Small, rigid, spreading, intricate shrubs 0.5-2 m high; branchlets spine-tipped, whitish slightly angular-striate, glabrous, becoming grey-brown, young growth reddish. 

<P>Phyllodes narrow to broadly obliquely lanceolate, 5-12 mm long, 2-4 mm broad, flat, thick, rigid, erect or spreading, grey-green or often with a whitish scurfy covering, young phyllodes reddish-brown, 1-veined, apex with a small straight or curved mucro; glands small situated on the upper margin below the centre of the phyllode.

<P>Inflorescences simple and axillary, solitary; flower-heads globular mid-yellow, 15-20-flowered; peduncles filiform, glabrous reddish-brown, 5-12 mm long; flowers 5-merous. 

<P>Legumes oblong, 1.5-3 cm long, c. 1 cm broad, flattish obtuse but shortly pointed. Seeds oblique in legume; funicle with 2 or 3 folds and tapering gradually into a small fleshy aril.