Shrub or small tree to 5 m high, viscid on flower buds; young branchlets with a dense white or rusty-brown indumentum of stellate hairs up to 0.8 mm across. Leaves mostly opposite, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, oblong-elliptic, narrowly oblong or narrowly oblong-obovate, (25–) 35–72 mm long, 6–22 mm wide; base obtuse to slightly attenuate; margin recurved; apex rounded or obtuse; adaxial surface with sparse to moderately dense indumentum of stellate hairs, glabrescent, ± smooth. Inflorescences on peduncles up to 2 mm long. Male flowers: androecium 6–13 mm long; stamens 75–115. Female flowers sessile or on pedicels up to 2 mm long; calyx lobes ovate to broadly ovate, 5–5.7 mm long, glabrous abaxially, with margins entire; ovary densely stellate-villose. Fruit ovoid to subglobose, 9–14 mm long, densely stellate-villose, mostly 3-seeded; persistent calyx lobes half the fruit length or less.
Grows in a variety of community types including mixed shrubland, lancewood woodland, mallee, Eucalyptus/Acacia open forest with shrubby understorey, Eucalyptus/Callitris open woodland and semi-evergreen vine-thicket. Soils often rocky, generally shallow sand, loam or red earths associated mostly with sandstone, but also rhyolite, shale or metasediments.
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