Spreading to (rarely) erect shrubs 0.3–0.8 (–2) m high, resprouting after fire. Young stems moderately to densely puberulous with short fascicled hairs. Leaves subsessile, spreading-erect, linear to elliptic or obovate, (6–) 15–25 mm long, 1–8 mm wide; margins varying from scarcely and narrowly recurved to strongly revolute and obscuring the abaxial lamina and midrib; adaxial surface smooth or tuberculate, pubescent when young with a sparse to dense indumentum of radial fascicled hairs and/or short, antrorse, tubercle-based, one-or few-armed fascicled hairs, sometimes also with long, flexuose simple hairs or shorter, hooked hairs, the indumentum persistent to older leaves or the leaves soon glabrescent; abaxial midrib glabrous or with indumentum as for adaxial lamina; abaxial lamina densely and closely whitish fascicled-pubescent sometimes also with sparse, longer, spreading, simple hairs; apex obtuse, ± straight. Flowers single, axillary, pedicellate, the pedicels distinctly down-curved after anthesis; pedicel 4–12 (–18) mm long, glabrous to sparsely fascicled-hairy. Bract 1, at apex of pedicel, herbaceous, linear to very narrowly triangular or obovate, acute, 4.5–6 mm long, with indumentum as for leaves; secondary bracts absent. Sepals 5.5−6.8 mm long, herbaceous; abaxial surface sparsely to densely puberulous with fascicled and/or straight or hooked hairs; midribs not prominent, adaxial surface sparsely puberulous with minute, fine, fascicled hairs towards the apex; outer sepals ovate-acute; inner sepals similar in size, shape and indumentum to the outer but usually broader and more obtuse. Petals 5, yellow, obovate, 10–13 (–15) mm long, ± deeply emarginate. Stamens (9–) 10–15 (–18), all on one side of the carpels and curving over them; filaments shortly fused at the base, 1.2–1.6 mm long; anthers rectangular, 1.8−2.2 mm long, dehiscing by introrse, longitudinal slits; staminodes 7–20, in bundles lateral to and opposite the fertile stamens. Carpels 2; ovaries compressed-globular, densely pubescent; styles curved excentrically from the carpel apex, c. 2 mm long. Ovules 2 per carpel. Seeds globular, c. 4 mm long, glossy, red-brown; aril translucent, lacerate-margined, covering c. half the length of the seed.
Occurs in a wide variety of habitats including jarrah-marri forest and wandoo woodlands on laterites and granite, Banksia woodlands, in acid coastal sands, and Acacia shrublands on coastal limestones.
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