The dense intricate and spinose shrub typically grows to a height of. It has short, divaricate spinose, glabrous branches that often have a white powdery covering that divide to form ribbed branchlets. The evergreen, patent to reflexed phyllodes have an ovate to elliptic to oblong shape with a length of and a width of and has a prominent midrib. It produces yellow flowers from July to August. The rudimentary inflorescences are usually single headed racemes with an axes that is less than in length. The spherical flower-heads contain 10 to 14 light golden flowers and have a diameter of. the seed pods that form after flowering are openly coiled and twisted with an overall length of around and a width of around. The shiny mottled brown seeds within the pods have an oblong shape with a length of and a large terminal aril.