The spreading, spiny and intricate shrub typically grows to a height of. It has glabrous branches with long thorns. It has clusters of phyllodes found in the nodes. The phyllodes have an asymmetrically narrowly oblong-elliptic to narrowly oblanceolateshape with a length of and a width of. It produces yellow flowers in August. The simple inflorescences occur singly or in groups of two or three. The flower-heads are shortly cylindrical or have an ovoid shape with a length of and a diameter of with golden flowers. The seed pods that form after flowering resemble a sting of beads with a length of up to and a width of. The dull black seeds in the pods have an elliptic shape.