Shrub to 2 m high, viscid; young branchlets glabrous, smooth or tuberculate. Leaves alternate, lorate or narrowly oblong, 6–10 mm long, 0.9–1.4 mm wide; base cuneate; margin tightly recurved to midrib concealing abaxial leaf surface; apex obtuse or rounded, sometimes apiculate; adaxial surface glabrous, ±smooth. Inflorescences on peduncles 0.5–2 mm long. Male flowers: androecium 2.7–3.5 mm long; stamens 15–50. Female flowers sessile; calyx lobes ovate to broadly ovate, 1.5–3.5 mm long, glabrous abaxially, with margins fimbriate; ovary glabrous. Fruit ovoid, 6–7 mm long, glabrous, 1–3-seeded; persistent calyx lobes half the fruit length or less.
Grows in hummock grassland, mallee with tall shrubland understorey, open woodland or open shrubland communities. Soils white, yellow or red sand often overlying pale grey or red clay.
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