Shrub to 1.5 m high, thinly viscid; young branchlets glabrous or rarely sparsely stellate-pubescent on young shoots, glabrescent, tuberculate. Leaves alternate, linear to lorate, 15–27 mm long, 1.5–2.6 mm wide; base cuneate; margin recurved or revolute to midrib concealing abaxial surface; apex recurved, rounded; adaxial surface glabrous, tuberculate. Inflorescences on peduncles up to 1 mm long. Male flowers: androecium 5.5–7 mm long; stamens 40–80. Female flowers sessile; calyx lobes elliptic to oblong-elliptic or ovate, 4.7–5.1 mm long, glabrous abaxially, with margins entire; ovary glabrous. Fruit ellipsoid, 7.5–8.2 mm long, glabrous, 1-or 2-seeded; persistent calyx lobes usually longer than fruit.
Grows on exposed granite outcrops in heath, dense shrubland, open Callitris woodland, or open eucalypt forest or woodland. The soils are shallow and sandy.
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