The intricate and prickly shrub typically grows to a height of 0.1 to 2.0 metres (0.3 to 6.6 ft).

[2] The species was first formally described by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1858 as part of the work Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.

It was reclassified as Racosperma pravifolium by Leslie Pedley in 1987 then returned to genus Acacia in 2006.

It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt, Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia[2] from Israelite Bay in the east to Boxwood Hill in the south west and Wubin in the north west.

It is often found as a growing in rocky shallow as a part of open shrubland or woodland communities.