Shrub to 3 (–6) m high; young branchlets densely fine, grey-white stellate-pubescent. Leaves alternate, lorate to narrowly oblong or narrowly oblong-elliptic, 18–54 mm long, 2.4–5.3 (–8.6) mm wide; base cuneate; margin recurved to revolute; apex straight, acute, rounded to obtuse, sometimes apiculate; adaxial surface with sparse indumentum of sessile and stipitate stellate hairs 0.3–0.6 mm across, glabrescent, smooth or minutely tuberculate. Inflorescences on peduncles 1–4 mm long. Male flowers: androecium 5–8.9 mm long; stamens 55–75. Female flowers sessile or on pedicels up to 0.4 mm long; calyx lobes narrowly ovate to ovate, 1.9–3.1 mm long, glabrous abaxially, with margins fimbriate; ovary stellate-tomentose. Fruit ellipsoid, 5.9–7.1 mm long, usually with scattered stellate hairs, 1-seeded; persistent calyx lobes half the fruit length or less.
Grows in rocky granitic or rhyolitic habitats in eucalypt woodland, open eucalypt forest or closed eucalypt forest, less frequently in open Syncarpia forest or rainforest. Soils usually coarse sand.
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