[3] The shrub has terete branchlets that are covered in short stiff hairs and subpersistent stipules.

The leather evergreen phyllodes have a length of 3 to 7.5 cm (1.2 to 3.0 in) and a diameter of around 1 mm (0.039 in) and are striated with 16 slightly raised nerves that are very close together.

[2] The species has an extremely limited distribution as in confined to a small roadside area to the north east of the town of Dowerin.

[2] There are two main populations, the first is found on a low rise on growing in a sandy loamy soils over laterite in a mostly cleared area of shrubland where it is associated with Hakea scoparia and Santalum acuminatum.

The second population is growing in a sandy-loamy soil atop a low ridge composed of laterite as part of an open mallee shrubland community containing Allocasuarina acutivalvis, Allocasuarina campestris and Melaleuca coronicarpa.