Shrub or small tree to 9 m tall. Leaves with petiole c. 3 mm long; lamina elliptic, narrowly obovate to spathulate, obtuse, 15-100 mm long. Spikes 4-12 cm long; bracts 4-10 mm long, white. Perianth segments 6-8 mm long, white or creamy yellow. Fruit c. 4 mm long.Grows as a shrub to 3 m in swampy habitats and as a tree to 9 m in rainforest. Flowers are fragrant.
Grows in shrub communities or in open areas in rainforest, often at the margins of sedge swamps with Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (Button Grass), in sand or gravel to c. 800 m alt.
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