Dioecious spreading shrub to 2 m high. Leaves simple, sessile, angular-obovate to oblanceolate, usually conduplicate or with concave upper surface, entire, attenuate at base, 0.5–1.8 cm long, 0.2–0.5 cm wide, glabrous; apex sometimes entire and acute or usually 3-toothed, rarely 4-toothed, the central tooth longest and usually recurved. Flowers in terminal few-flowered cymes or solitary; pedicels 2.5–7.5 mm long, rarely to 10 mm. Sepals 4, lanceolate to ovate, 1.3–2.4 mm long, persistent. Stamens 8. Ovary glabrous or rarely pubescent. Capsule 4-winged, broadly oblong or rarely broadly obovate in lateral view, 7–12.5 mm long, 8–12.5 mm wide, rarely to 18mm, glabrous; wings 2–3.5 mm wide, membranous; dehiscence septifragal.
Grows in semi-arid, undulating or flat country, usually in sandy soils or on sandstone hills in mallee–broombush associations, open woodlands and hummock grassland.
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