Erect much-branched shrub to 0.5 m high, thinly resinous on most parts. Young branchlets ± terete, longitudinally grooved, glabrous. Leaves narrowly obovate, 2.8–4.5 mm long, 1.5–2.2 mm wide; apex rounded; abaxial surface densely hairy with ± sessile, stellate hairs up to 0.6 mm across. Flowers axillary, pedicellate, solitary; pedicels 2–4 mm long (♂, ♀), glabrous. Male flowers: receptacle 0.8–1 mm across, minutely hairy; stamens 9–11. Female flowers: calyx lobes suborbicular, 0.9–1 mm long; ovary glabrous, 3-locular; stigma calyptriform. Fruit ± ellipsoid, 4–4.7 mm long, glabrous; persistent calyx lobes c. one fifth of fruit length.
Grows in mallee eucalypt woodland with shrubby layer of Melaleuca spp., Hakea spp. and Leptospermum sp., on grey sandy soil on edge of salt lake.
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