Shrub to 6 m high, thinly viscid on young shoots, leaves and flowers; young branchlets with a moderately dense white indumentum of stellate hairs up to 0.3 mm across, glabrescent, rugose. Leaves alternate or opposite, linear-elliptic, linear-obovate or sometimes linear, 40–92 mm long, (1.6–) 3–10 mm wide; base attenuate; margin recurved or sometimes revolute; apex straight, acute or obtuse, apiculate; adaxial surface with sparse indumentum of stellate hairs, glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescences subsessile or on peduncles up to 6 mm long. Male flowers: androecium 5–8 mm long; stamens 55–70. Female flowers on pedicels 1.5–3 mm long; calyx lobes narrowly ovate or oblong-ovate, 3.2–5.2 mm long, glabrous abaxially, with margins entire; ovary usually with scattered stellate hairs, sometimes glabrous. Fruit narrowly ellipsoid or narrowly ovoid, 8.5–11.3 mm long, glabrous or with scattered stellate hairs, mostly 1-seeded; persistent calyx lobes more than half the fruit length.
Grows on rocky hillsides in eucalypt forest or woodland, Acacia woodland or shrubland, open heathland or vine thicket. Soils skeletal to shallow sand, sandy clay, clay loam overlying rhyolite, trachyte or sandstone rocks, or rarely red earths.
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