Rigid shrub to 1.5 m tall; branches glabrous; branchlets prominently angled by decurrent bases of phyllodes. Phyllodes flattened laterally into a vertical blade, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1–6 cm long, blue-grey, divaricate and straight or falcate, rigid, tapering to a pungent point, adnate to stem by 3–10 mm wide decurrent base. Inflorescences 1–few per axil, racemose, mostly 2–10-flowered, rachis 1–7 mm long; peduncle 0–1 mm long; pedicels to c. 1 mm long, subtended by an oblong, hooded bract c. 1 mm long. Calyx 2–3 mm long including c. 1 mm receptacle, teeth short, triangular, ciliate, upper 2 wider, partly united; corolla mostly orange; standard orbicular, 5–6 mm long, 5–6 mm wide, orange with a reddish centre. Pod obliquely triangular, 9–14 mm long, 6–10 mm wide; seeds ovate-reniform, 3–4 mm long, rounded. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GGr. Also SA. In Victoria confined to the west where apparently restricted to the Little Desert and Horsham areas. Found in mallee scrublands and woodlands on dry stony or sandy soils.
