Erect or spreading shrub to 2 m tall, with lignotuber. New shoots silky-pubescent. Stems pubescent. Leaves with petiole 1.5-4 mm long; lamina linear to narrowly elliptic-obovate, 7-25 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, obtuse, with entire, revolute margins, thick, glabrous above, tomentose below. Conflorescence terminal; rachis to 3.5 cm long, rusty-pubescent; bracts narrowly ovate, obtuse, pubescent, ciliate. Perianth 4-5 mm long, cream to white, glabrous. Hypogynous glands oblong, thick, 0.2-0.3 mm long. Gynoecium 3.5-4.5 mm long; ovary rusty-villous. Follicle obliquely elliptic, acuminate, 12-18 mm long, 7-8 mm wide, pubescent. Seed wing terminal.
Grows in rocky, doleritic soil in heath, sometimes with scattered mallee eucalypts, and in low woodland and forest, occasionally in boggy areas. Common from 700 to 1300 m alt.
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