Rounded bushy to erect shrub 0.2-1.5 m tall. Leaves entire, spreading, subterete-trigonous to linear-subulate or linear, rarely narrowly elliptic, 0.5-3 cm long, 0.5-3.5 (-4.5) mm wide, rigid to pliable, pungent or not; upper surface glabrous or subsericeous to pubescent, dull or shiny, rarely punctate or with prominent ribs; margins smoothly revolute or recurved; lower surface usually obscured except midvein and then 2-grooved, occasionally 1-grooved when dry. Conflorescence terminal or axillary, erect, sessile or almost so, simple, usually (2-) 4-6 flowers in a loose cluster, sometimes solitary; rachis
Habitat variable, often in winter-wet situations in woodland, heath or mallee communities in clay to sand soils.