Small, much-branched, spreading shrubs 1-1.75 m high; branches terete or slightly angular, usually covered with a hoary white mealiness on young branchlets. <P>Phyllodes linear to narrowly-obovate, 1.5-7cm long, 2-6 mm broad, usually gently curved, thick more or less fleshy when fresh, becoming wrinkled when dry; veins longitudinal, up to 7 on each face; blade broadest near the apex, obtuse and with a minute hard point, much narrowed towards the base; glands small on upper margin near base. <P>Inflorescences simple and axillary, usually twin or sometimes in clusters up to four heads (rarely solitary); flower-heads small, globular, mid-yellow, 15-20-flowered; peduncles short, spreading, hoary; flowers 5-merous. <P>Legumes linear, 3-6 cm long, 2-3 mm broad, curved or twisted, raised over the seeds, margins thickened, slightly constricted between seeds. Seeds longitudinal in legume, ellipsoid; funicle usually with 2-3 folds, thickened into a small aril.