The spreading often dense shrub typically grows to a height of 1 to 4 metres (3 to 13 ft)[1] and branches from near ground level.

The grey-green phyllodes have a linear to linear-elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic shape and are straight to shallowly curved.

Phyllodes have a length of 3 to 16 cm (1.2 to 6.3 in) and a width of 3 to 13 mm (0.12 to 0.51 in) with red to brown margins with numerous, fine, closely parallel veins.

[4] There are two subspecies; It is endemic to an area in the Whearbelt and Goldfields regions of Western Australia where it is found on sandplains, rocky rises and flats growing in sandy, loamy, clay or gravelly soils.

[1] The species is found between Wubin in the north and extends in a south easterly direction down to around Peak Charles National Park where it is a part of mallee heath and open shrubland communities.