Erect shrub, 1.2-4 m tall, resprouting from lignotuber and often suckering from horizontal roots. Branchlets densely tomentose to glabrescent at flowering. Leaves narrowly obovate to linear, flat, twisted through 90° at base, 4-14 cm long, 3-12 mm wide, glabrous; marginal veins prominent; longitudinal veins prominent, with 3-5 (rarely 7) above and below; secondary venation obscure. Inflorescence a solitary axillary umbelliform raceme, with 10-36 flowers; pedicels cream-white, glabrous or rarely ±sparsely appressed-pubescent. Perianth cream-white. Pistil 4-5.7 mm long; gland a small flap, 0.3-0.4 mm high. Fruit subsessile, ±obliquely ovate, slightly curved towards apex, 1.5-2.6 cm long, 0.8-1.3 cm wide, scarcely beaked but shortly apiculate. Seed obliquely narrowly ovate-elliptic, 10-16 mm long; wing extending partly or fully down both sides of body, more broadly on adaxial side, blackish brown.
Found in sclerophyll forest and, frequently in scattered populations, in mallee-heath, in acidic sandy soil.
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