Small conifer-like tree or shrub to c. 1-5 m high, not lignotuberous. Branchlets longitudinally multi-ribbed, deep red, moderately to densely raised-tomentose, quickly glabrescent to persistent in grooves. Leaves terete, somewhat flexible, not grooved, (1.5-) 2.5-7 (-8.5) cm long, 1-1.3 mm wide, glabrous; mucro 0.7-1.6 mm long. Inflorescence with (4-) 6-10 flowers; rachis simple, (0.6-) 1.5-2.5 mm long, densely white-tomentose; flowers white; pedicels 2-3.8 mm long, sparsely to moderately densely white-tomentose. Perianth 1.5-2.2 mm long, glabrous except for sparse white hairs on limb. Pistil 4-4.5 mm long; gland minute, U-shaped. Fruit woody, long remaining closed, broadly ovate-elliptic, 3.5-4.5 cm long, 2.5-3 (-3.8) cm wide, densely sharply to bluntly, very coarsely tuberculate, deep brown-black; beak smooth or sparsely tuberculate, short and broad, decurrent down red-brown wood zone side only; horns to 1-2 mm long, often worn. Seed ±central in valve, obliquely elliptic, 24-38 mm long, 11-15 mm wide; wing decurrent 1/2-3/4 way down one side only, brown-black.
Grows in Eucalyptus woodland, open forest, sclerophyllous scrub or shrubland in shallow sandy or loamy soil on sandstone.
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