It produces yellow, globular flowers between late winter and early summer.

Phyllodes are continuous with the branchlets, forming opposite wings with each one extending to the one underneath.

After flowering black, glabrous, twisted and coiled seed pods are formed that are up to 2 cm (0.8 in) long and 2 to 3 mm (0.1 to 0.1 in) wide.

[3] The species was first formally described by the botanist George Bentham in 1855 as part of the work Plantae Muellerianae: Mimoseae published in Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde.

It is found from Arthur River in the west and north to Esperance in the east and south to the coast.