Rounded shrub with ascending branches, 1-3.5 m tall, non-sprouting. Branchlets tomentose to appressed-pubescent at flowering, sometimes patchily glabrescent. Leaves ±terete, sometimes compressed, stellate or pentagonal in cross-section, deeply but openly grooved longitudinally or shallowly concave between angles, 12-27 cm long, 1.5-2 mm diam., glabrescent; longitudinal veins 5 all around, at angles. Inflorescence a solitary axillary umbelliform raceme, with 50-70 flowers; pedicels glabrous. Perianth cream, ageing pink or orange-pink. Pistil 13-15 mm long; gland an obtriangular flap, 0.5-0.7 mm high. Fruit 1-8 per axil, stalked, obliquely ovate-elliptic, ±straight, 1.7-2.5 cm long, 0.8-1.7 cm wide, acuminate, scarcely beaked but with prominent readily broken apiculum. Seed obliquely ovate, 10-15 mm long, 5-6 mm wide; wing extending (broadly and fully) down one side of body only, sometimes notched, blackish brown.
Found on yellow sand plain in mallee heath or in lateritic sand, sometimes on breakaways or on hills, or in association with granite outcrops.
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