Open to dense spreading to erect shrub up to 2 m high, usually resinous on most parts. Young branchlets angular, puberulous between ridges, indumentum sometimes obscured by resin. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong, narrowly obovate to obovate, narrowly elliptic to elliptic or rarely narrowly ovate, 9–40 mm long, 0.9–15 mm wide; apex acute, rounded to truncate, emarginate or rarely obcordate, sometimes ultimately with apiculum up to 0.5 mm long; abaxial surface densely hairy with white crispate hairs up to 0.8 mm long. Flowers pedicellate; males axillary, solitary or in shortly pedunculate clusters of up to 3 flowers; females axillary or terminal on short axillary branchlets, solitary; pedicels 2–10 mm long (♂, ♀), puberulous (usually concealed by resinous covering). Male flowers: receptacle 1–1.5 mm across, densely hairy or with a few scattered hairs; stamens 10–60. Female flowers: calyx lobes triangular to ovate, 1–2 mm long; ovary glabrous or sometimes with scattered stellate hairs, thickly resinous, (2 or) 3-locular; stigma calyptriform. Fruit ellipsoid-subglobose, 4.5–8 mm long, glabrous; persistent calyx lobes c. one third of fruit length.
In inland areas it is recorded as mainly growing in shrubland, mallee, and open woodland communities, in sandy loams or red earths, on undulating plains or occasionally in mountain ranges, gorges, or associated with rocky outcrops. In coastal areas it is recorded as growing in heathland and shrubland communities in sandy soils on coastal dunes or rocky headlands.
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