Shrubs up to 0.5 m tall with many stems arising from a stout rootstock, last burnt about 4 years ago. Branches long, slender, erect, becoming glabrous when the epidermis splits off; leaf scars projecting as distinct lumps. Branchlets fairly short, erect, scattered, densely crisped pubescent, yellow at first becoming reddish-brown, leafy, very short at the inflorescence. Leaves on vigorous young stems up to 22 mm long, more normally about 12 mm long, 0.9 mm broad, linear-lanceolate, alternate, erect; apex acute with a sharp erect mucro; margins narrowly cartilaginous, villous-ciliate at first; adaxial surface glabrous, more or less flat when fresh; abaxial surface convex showing a double midrib when dry, crisped pubescent at first, one row of gland dots to either side of the midrib; narrowing slightly at the base to a petiole about 1 mm long. Inflorescence terminal in very much reduced compound racemes; flowers 5 mm diam., pedicellate. Bract 1.2 mm long, 0.5 mm broad, lanceolate, glabrous, without gland dots; apex sub-obtuse, somewhat thickened; margins ciliolate, translucent below. Bracteoles two, 1 mm long, 0.5 mm broad, lanceolate, glabrous without gland dots, ciliolate; apex acute with a small translucent point. Calyx lobes five, 1.5 mm long, 1 mm broad, lanceolate, glabrous, gland-dotted; apex sub-acute, thickened, margins ciliolate, translucent. Petals five, 2.5 mm long, 1.7 mm broad, ovate, glabrous, white, without gland dots, spreading, connate at the base with the lobes of the disc; margins irregular with about 3 incipient cilia to either side below. Staminodes none. Filaments five, becoming 1.2 mm long, acicular, glabrous, spreading after anthesis. Anthers five, 0.8 mm long, 0.7 mm broad, yellowish; apical gland globose, semi-immersed. Pollen 45 µ long, 25 µ broad, oblong. Disc 5-sinuate-crenulate, green or reddened, stands well open, exceeds the ovary by a long way, exudes nectar. Stigma 0.35 mm diam., capitellate, pale green. Style becoming 1.2 mm long, normally fairly erect, glabrous. Ovary 5-carpellate, 7.5-2.5 mm long including the horn 1.5-3 mm long (observed from 17 localities), carpels glabrous, gland-dotted, oily and strong smelling when fresh if crushed. It appears that one, two or more of the carpels fail to be fertile. Seed 5.5-7 mm long, 2.4-3 mm broad (observed from 10 localities), black, shining; aril streaked with black.
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Shrub, 0.5(-1.5) m high, single stemmed at base. Leaves linear, 12(-22) x 0.9 mm, alternate, simple, shortly petiolate, one row of gland dots to either side of midrib. Flowers terminal, 5 mm in diam., pedicellate, in much-reduced, compound racemes. Calyx: lobes 5, 1.5 mm long, persisting. Petals 5, 2.5 x 1.7 mm, ovate, glabrous, white, without gland dots, connate with lobes of disc, spreading. Stamens 5; anthers with apical gland globose, semi-immersed. Staminodes absent. Disc well developed, sinuate-crenulate, 5-lobed, fleshy, nectariferous, standing open, much longer than ovary. Ovary 5-carpellate, often glandular with gland persisting and immersed at apex of horn of ripe fruit. Flowering time mainly Sept.-Nov. Fruit 5-carpellate; carpels glabrous, with gland dots; horns 1.5-3.0 mm long.
A shrub. It grows 50 cm tall. It has a stout rootstock that produces many stems. The leaves are narrow and 12 mm long and 1 mm wide. The flowers are in a compound group at the top of the stems and are small. The flowers are 5 mm across.
Finely leafy, aromatic shrublet sometimes to 50 cm, resprouting from a woody caudex. Leaves linear, mucronate. Flowers in compact racemes grouped in lax, terminal corymbs, white, petals persisting below fruit.
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