Rounded rarely semi-prostrate shrub, 0.8-2.6 m tall, c. half as wide as high, non-lignotuberous. Branchlets appressed-pubescent, ferruginous. Leaves simple, 2-6.3 cm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, appressed-sericeous, quickly glabrescent; mucro 1-2 mm long. Inflorescence erect or ?pendent in older axes, with 7-14 flowers; rachis branched, 3-16 mm long, tomentose; pedicels 2.5-4 mm long. Perianth 6-9 mm long, cream-white turning pink, deeper with age. Pistil 21-25 mm long; pollen presenter a ±lateral disc. Fruit obliquely obovate, 2.2-3.1 cm long, 1.2-1.4 cm wide, pusticulate; apiculum 2-3 mm long; horns 2.5-5 mm long. Seed 13-22 mm long; wing broadly and partly down one side of seed body.
Found in clay, clay-loam, sandy loam, gravelly laterite, granite, ironstone or sand in mallee scrub or in Myrtaceous/Proteaceous heath.
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