Shrubs or small trees to 2–5 (–7) m high. Leaves: petiole 1–1.5 cm long; lamina oblanceolate, 6–13 cm long, 1.0–1.8 cm wide, flat to slightly revolute, sometimes slightly undulate, acute to rounded; upper surface dark glossy or dull green, glabrous, with midrib and secondary veins obvious and impressed; lower surface completely covered with a fine white-woolly indumentum in a single matted layer, not obscuring the prominent midrib and lateral veins. Inflorescence an irregular panicle of (3–) 8–25 (–40) capitula in axils of several upper leaves; sometimes with 2 or 3 panicles per axil. Florets 10–15 per capitulum, yellow. Achenes 2.9 mm long, 0.7 mm diam., red-brown with 10 lighter coloured weakly paired vertical ribs.
Mainly found in the shrubby understorey of dry sclerophyll forest, on dolerite soils, from sea-level to 1000 m. Commonly associated species include Eucalyptus obliqua, E. delegatensis, E. globulus, E. pulchella, Pomaderris apetala, Acacia dealbata, A. mucronata, Leptospermum lanigerum, Bursaria spinosa, Dodonaea viscosa, Olearia viscosa, Monotoca glauca, Blechnum wattsii and B. nudum.
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