Shrub 0.3-1.5 m tall. Leaves linear-subterete to narrowly elliptic, 0.7-5.0 cm long, 0.6-3.5 mm wide; margins revolute; upper surface smooth, glabrous or nearly so; lower surface often enclosed including midvein and then 1-grooved, silky to sublanate when exposed. Unit conflorescence subumbelloid, acropetal. Flowers adaxially acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth with white to cream hairs, often tinged pale grey or pink, also with brownish hairs outside especially at base and on limb; style similar, lacking brown hairs. Perianth villous outside and inside, persistent in fruit. Pistil 5.5-8 mm long, villous; style-end lacking a terminal appendage; pollen-presenter ±lateral, broadly elliptic to round in face view, flat-conical with a narrow rim. Follicle narrowly obloid-ellipsoidal to ovoid, 8-12 mm long, loosely villous, faintly ridged.
Grows in various habitats including Wandoo or Marri woodlands, mallee scrub and low heath, in sandy or gravelly soils on granite or laterite, often in low moist sites.
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