Shrub 0.4-1.8 m high. Leaves linear or narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate or slightly obovate, 0.3-5 cm long, 0.8-10 mm wide; margins recurved to revolute; upper surface granular-scabrid; lower surface often mostly or entirely enclosed, sericeous. Unit conflorescence umbelloid-subglobose, basipetal. Flowers abaxially basiscopic. Flower colour: perianth (hairs of both surfaces) grey or off-white, tinged brown on limb, after anthesis with pinkish ground tissue showing; style with grey to white hairs over pinkish ground tissue. Perianth villous outside, bearded inside. Pistil 8-11 (-13) mm long, villous (less so on ventral side); style-end lacking a terminal appendage; pollen-presenter strongly oblique to almost lateral, round in face view, flat. Follicle ovoid to obloid, 8-11 mm long, loosely tomentose to villous, rugulose.
Grows in heath and shrubby woodland habitats (Jarrah, Marri or Karri), in sand, clay or humic soils, sometimes in moist situations.
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