Erect shrubs 0.1-1.2 m tall. Hairs greyish, antrorsely spreading to patent or curly. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves linear, 1.2-2.5 cm long, 0.6-1 mm wide, ±terete or compressed-subterete, with 4 or 6 prominent, parallel veins, spreading to suberect, straight, twisted through 0-360°, pungent, strongly glaucous, glabrous to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth to slightly scaberulous. Inflorescence anauxotelic or auxotelic, 1-80-flowered; rachis 0-12 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 3-10 mm long, erect, glabrous to sparsely hairy; tepals 8.5-15.5 mm long, acuminate, glabrous on outside. Anther appendage obtuse, 0.3-0.6 mm long, slightly recurved. Ovary glabrous.
Grows in low heath and mallee heath, in acidic yellow or brown sand or sandy loam, often over laterite or in red calcareous sand.
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