The thick, smooth, grey-green phyllodes have an obliquely obovate to oblong-elliptic shape and is occasionally ovate.

The bow shaped to irregularly coiled seed pods that form after flowering have a length of up to 2 cm (0.79 in) and a width of 2 to 3 mm (0.079 to 0.118 in).

[1] The species was first formally described by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1890 as part of the work Descriptions of hitherto unrecorded Australian plants, with additional phyto-geographic notes as published in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.

[4] In Western Australia it is native to an area in the Goldfields-Esperance and Wheatbelt regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated on plains, low-lying areas and around salt lakes where it grows in sandy clay, sandy, loamy, calcareous or lateritic soils.

It can be planted close to the coast line or in hills or on plains in full sun or part shade and can tolerate drought and moderate frosts.