Low erect shrub to 1.5 (-2) m high, lignotuberous. Leaves oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 6-13 cm long, (8-) 14-30 mm wide, usually obtuse, more rarely acute or acuminate, blackened apically but scarcely mucronate, moderately appressed-sericeous with white and ferruginous hairs when young, rapidly glabrescent. Involucral buds 1.5 mm long, externally pubescent. Inflorescence 1-4 umbels of 14-20 white flowers per axil, often arising on old rachises in lower axils; rachis 3-4 mm long; pedicels 4-7.5 mm long. Perianth 3.5-4 mm long. Pistil 7-10 mm long. Fruit obliquely elliptic, 2-2.6 cm long, 0.6-1.2 cm wide in median view, black-pusticulate; pusticules raised but rarely tuberculate, and if so, only to 1 mm high; beak pusticulate; red-brown wood zone 0.5-0.7 mm wide at widest point. Seed 16-18 mm long.
Grows in open forest, often associated with Melaleuca , on sand or sandstone, sometimes in poorly drained flats.
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