Shrub 1-5 m high, to 4 m across. Leaves linear to narrowly ovate, 15-25 cm long, 3-15 (-25) mm wide, usually coarsely and irregularly toothed or serrate, sometimes almost entire; teeth subtriangular, not pungent; margins recurved to revolute; lower surface usually partly exposed, densely tomentose with curled hairs. Unit conflorescence erect, secund; floral rachises 30-50 (-100) mm long. Flower colour: perianth purplish with a grey to white indumentum; style pink to purplish pink with a green tip. Perianth villous to subsericeous outside. Pistil (10.5-) 15-25 mm long; ovary stipitate; style glabrous. Follicle 11-12 mm long, sericeous.
Grows in eucalypt woodland, usually on slopes or ridges in open rocky situations, in skeletal sandy or loam soils on sandstone or shale.
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