Small tree or upright spreading shrub, 1-5 m tall, non-lignotuberous. Branchlets and young leaves appressed-sericeous, ferruginous. Leaves flat, linear to narrowly elliptic or obovate, 3-11.5 cm long, 3-11 mm wide, attenuate, entire, acute. Inflorescence with 2-8 flowers; involucre 4-5 mm long; pedicels 5.5-10 mm long, woolly-tomentose, with hairs cream, extending onto perianth. Perianth 4.5-7 mm long. Pistil 7.5-8 mm long; pollen presenter 1.1-1.4 mm long; gland 0.2 mm high. Fruit leaf-like, obliquely transversely elliptic, 2.5-3.1 cm long; 0.7-0.9 cm wide, smooth, not beaked. Seed obliquely narrowly elliptic or obovate, 14.5-20 mm long; wing partly down only one side of seed body or apical only.
Grows in Jarrah forest, often in marshy conditions, in sand, clay or laterite.