The dense pungent shrub typically grows to a height of 0.4 to 1.2 metres (1 to 4 ft)[1] and has branchlets that are covered with matted woolly hairs.

The rigid and glabrous phyllodes are 2.5 to 6 cm (0.98 to 2.36 in) in length and 1 to 2 mm (0.039 to 0.079 in) wide and are coarsely pungent and have 16 closely parallel, yellowish coloured nerves.

When it blooms it produces simple inflorescences that are found in pairs in the axils and have spherical flower-heads that have a diameter of 4 to 5 mm (0.16 to 0.20 in) and contain 15 to 18 golden coloured flowers.

The hairy and thinly crustaceous pods have a length of up to 4.5 cm (1.8 in) and a width of about 2.5 mm (0.098 in).

[1] The distribution of the bulk of the population the shrub extends from around Wyalkatchem and Chiddarcooping in the north down to around Ongerup and Frank Hann National Park with outlying populations found as far east as Coolgardie as a part of mallee communities.