[3] The simple inflorescences occur along a 3 to 18 cm (1.2 to 7.1 in) long raceme with showy, spherical flower-heads that are densely packed with 70 to 80 bright golden coloured flowers.

The firmly chartaceous pods are up to 6 cm (2.4 in) in length and 8 to 15 mm (0.31 to 0.59 in) wide and contain dull dark brown coloured seeds with a broadly elliptic to ovate shape.

[2] It was first formally described in 1825 by Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in the second volume of his publication Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.

[2] The plant is found in the Pilbara, Kimberley and northern parts of the Mid West regions of Western Australia where it is situated along watercourses, on plains and lower slopes and along road-sides growing in sand or loamy clay or alluvial sand or skeletal soils often over or around sandstone.

[3] Its range extends from around Carnarvon in the west to around Meektharra in the south to Rudall River National Park in the east and Wallal Downs in the north.