Dioecious erect shrub to 4 m high. Leaves simple, erect, rigid, sessile or tapering to a petiole 5–7 mm long, linear, acute, entire and revolute, attenuate at base; lamina 3–10.5 cm long, 0.1–0.25 cm wide, glabrous. Flowers usually in axillary few-flowered cymes, rarely in terminal panicles; pedicels 2–15 mm long. Sepals 4, lanceolate or ovate, 1.2–1.8 mm long, caducous. Stamens 8. Ovary glabrous or rarely pubescent near apex. Capsule 4-, rarely 3-winged, depressed-obovate in lateral view, 5–11 mm long, 11–15 mm wide, glabrous; wings 3.5–8 mm wide, membranous; dehiscence septicidal.
Grows in mixed shrubland, in open eucalypt woodland, dry forest or hummock grassland with Eucalyptus melanophloia F.Muell., usually on sandstone or red sandy soil or on limestone and basalt outcrops.
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