[1] It has light grey to mid-grey coloured bark and glabrous to minutely hairy and rigid branchlets with persistent or caducous stipules that have a length of 1 to 2 mm (0.039 to 0.079 in).

After flowering papery to crustaceous seed pods form that have a narrowly oblong to linear shape.

The glabrous pods have a length of up to 4 cm (1.6 in) and a width of 2.5 to 7 mm (0.098 to 0.276 in) containing longitudinally arranged seeds inside.

[3] There are three recognised subspecies: It is native to an area in the Mid West, Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it is often situated on undulating plains and lateritic rises where it grows in sandy, sandy-clay and loamy soils.

[1] The bulk of the population is found from around Port Gregory in the north west down to around the Stirling Range in the south and out to around Scaddan in the east.