 The inflorescences occur singly and have spherical flower-heads containing 14 to 23 golden flowers.The dark brown to black seed pods that form after flowering are curved or a single coil with a length of up to and a width of and contain elliptic seeds with a length of .It is native to an area in the Mid West and Wheatbelt regions of Western Australia from around Northampton in the north to around Yilgarn in the south east where it is found on sandplains, rises and around salt lakes growing in a variety of soil types as a part of "Eucalyptus" woodland or mallee scrub communities.