The rigid, glabrous, pungent and evergreen phyllodes are ascending to erect and straight to shallowly incurved with a pentagonal cross section.

[1] The simple inflorescences occur singly and have spherical flower-heads with a diameter of 6 to 8 mm (0.24 to 0.31 in) containing 60 to 85 densely packed golden coloured flowers.

The pods contain dull mottled seeds with a broad-ovate to nearly circular shape and a length of 3 to 6 mm (0.12 to 0.24 in).

[2] It is native to an area in the Mid West, Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it is usually situated on low rises and sandplains growing in gravelly, sandy or clay loam soils[1] as a part of shrubland communities.

The range of the plant extends from Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve in the north west down to around Narembeen and Boorabbin in the south east with other smaller populations found near Albion Downs and Comet Vale further to the east.