Open erect shrub 1-2 (-3) m tall, not rhizomatous. Branchlets angular, ridged, subsericeous. Leaves spreading to widely ascending, straight, pliable, not crowded, single or occasionally in loose clusters of 3, linear to very narrowly elliptic, (3.5-) 5-9 (-11) cm long, 1-3 (-5) mm wide; upper surface usually punctate, midvein and intramarginal veins prominent and faintly granular; margins shortly refracted; lower surface partly exposed, subsericeous. Conflorescence terminal on longer ultimate branchlets, pedunculate (peduncle 1-20 mm long), usually erect and borne clear of the foliage, usually simple, shortly and broadly secund, usually many-flowered, acropetal. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth dead white with brown hairs on limb, or rarely tinged faintly pink; style dead white becoming reddish with age after tepal drop. Perianth subsericeous outside, profusely bearded inside. Pistil 7-13 mm long; stipe 1.3-1.5 mm long; style strongly hooked in apical 1-3 mm, glabrous except for minute hairs or papillae in apical 1 mm; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle narrowly ovoid, (11-) 13-15 mm long, colliculose.
Grows in shrubby eucalypt woodland in moist but well-drained semi-shaded to open situations, usually in skeletal sandy soils over sandstone, occasionally in light sandy clay or pebbly pseudolateritic soils.
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