Erect shrub 1.5-2.5 m tall. Branchlets angular, sericeous. Leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 4-14 cm long, 4-18 mm wide; upper surface smooth to slightly punctate; margins very shortly recurved; lower surface sericeous. Conflorescence axillary or cauline or rarely terminal, erect to decurved, shortly pedunculate, a loose irregular to subsecund cluster, 2-10 flowered; floral rachis 2-5 mm long. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth reddish pink outside, mauve-pink inside; style reddish pink. Perianth sparsely sericeous outside, bearded inside. Pistil 13-17.5 mm long; style gently incurved, glabrous except for short erect hairs in apical 5-6 mm; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle ellipsoidal to narrowly ovoid, 20-36 mm long, longitudinally ribbed on dorsal side.
Grows in shrubby understorey in eucalypt woodland or open forest, around rocky sandstone breakaways, occasionally on sandy flats or around soaks.
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