Small, rigid, diffuse, prickly, sprawling or procumbent shrubs 20-80 cm high; branchlets terete slender pubescent. 

<P>Phyllodes broadly to narrowly triangular, 5-13 mm long, rigid, vein prominently raised and situated near the lower straight margin, upper margin humped or sharply angled below the middle, abruptly contracted at the base, tapering towards the apex into a fine straight pungent point. 

<P>Inflorescences simple and axillary, solitary; flower-heads globular, whitish yellow 20--30-flowered; peduncles slender finely hairy about as long as phyllodes; flowers 5-merous. 

<P>Legumes linear 2-3 cm long, c. 4 mm broad, flat, coriaceous, dark brown; margins thickened and constricted between the seeds. Seeds longitudinal in legume almost orbicular; funicle short, filiform, without aril.