Spreading dense shrub, 0.5-2 m tall; resprouting capacity unknown. Branchlets sericeous at flowering. Leaves rigid, oblong-elliptic to narrowly obovate, flat, 2-4.8 cm long, 4-8 mm wide, twisted at base, glabrescent; marginal veins prominent; midvein prominent above and below; venation otherwise obscure. Inflorescence a solitary axillary umbelliform raceme, with 9-16 flowers; pedicels cream-white, glabrous. Perianth cream-white. Pistil 4.2-5.5 mm long; gland a small flap, c. 0.5 mm high. Fruit shortly stalked, obliquely narrowly ovate-elliptic, ±straight, 1.2-2 cm long, 0.5-0.9 cm wide, scarcely beaked but shortly apiculate. Seed obliquely narrowly ovate, sometimes slightly sigmoid, 9.5-13 mm long; wing extending more broadly down one side of seed body, narrowly down other, blackish brown.
Grows in heathy shrubland, sometimes in woodland, in sandy to clayey sometimes waterlogged soil, at times in association with granite or quartzite outcrops.
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