Plant 30-100 cm tall. Basal leaves up to 4; lamina flat, rather thick, 1.3-5.2 mm wide, rarely to 6 mm. Inflorescence paniculate, with widely divergent, usually stout branches; flowers usually grouped 2-5 together, at top of and on short branches throughout inflorescence; bracteoles opaque, black in centre, the veins obscure abaxially, the margins sharply differentiated, broad, membranous, white; upper bracteole obtuse to acute, reaching to ⅔-¾ of petals. Flowers 8.5-12 mm long, brownish black. Sepals ¾ or more as long as petals. Stamens equal; anthers versatile, borne at c. middle of petals, usually 3.2-4.4 mm long. Style at anthesis slightly exceeding anthers to slightly exserted from petals, rarely slightly shorter than anther tips.
Grows in shrubland, mallee and eucalypt forest and woodland in sandy, lateritic and clay soils usually in dry sites but occasionally in low-lying seasonally wet sites.
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