[2][3] It was one of eleven species selected for the Save a Species Walk campaign in April 2016 when scientists walked 300 km to raise money for collection of seeds to be prepared and stored at the Australian PlantBank at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan.

It has glabrous and terete branchlets that are angular but can be compressed at extremities and is usually covered in a fine white powdery coating.

It blooms between August and October producing inflorescences which are found singly or in pairs in the axils and which have ovoid or cylindrical flower-heads with a length of 0.7 to 3.5 cm (0.28 to 1.38 in) packed with bright yellow flowers.

The pods have a length of 2.5 to 7 cm (0.98 to 2.76 in) and a width of 3 to 4 mm (0.12 to 0.16 in) and are scurfy and glabrous with fine hairs along the margins and longitudinally arranged seeds inside.

It is often situated on exposed rocky outcrops, slopes and ridges growing in thin soils over sandstone, conglomerate or granite as a part of scrub, heath or open dry sclerophyll forest communities.