Dioecious or monoecious shrub or small tree, 1-5 m high. Bark smooth. Branchlets ascending, to 23 cm long; articles terete, 5-12 mm long, 0.6-1.1 mm diam., often with a waxy bloom, glabrous; phyllichnia rounded to angular; teeth 6-9, erect to spreading, mostly not overlapping, 0.3-0.8 mm long, not marcescent. Male spikes occasionally moniliform, 0.5-5 cm long, 5-10 whorls per cm; bracteoles persistent; anther 0.5-0.8 mm long. Cones shortly to long-cylindrical, occasionally irregular, pubescent at least when young; peduncle 2-10 mm long; cone body 5-20 mm long, 5-12 mm diam.; bracteoles truncate to broadly acute, pyramidal protuberance shorter than bracteole body. Samara 3.5-5 mm long, dark brown.
Found on tablelands, slopes and coastal ranges, on sandstone ridges and hillsides in heath and low open woodland.
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