Spreading to prostrate shrubs to 1.7 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately hairy. Leaves narrowly to broadly elliptic to ovate to obovate or narrowly oblong, 8-22 mm long, 2.5-8.5 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins, usually spreading but sometimes with a prominently recurved tip, straight, innocuous, slightly to strongly discolorous, not glaucous, sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent to very sparsely hairy when mature, smooth but sometimes with longitudinal wrinkles abaxially when dried. Inflorescence auxotelic, 1-16-flowered; rachis 0-7.5 cm long. Flowers mostly subtended by reduced leaves or leaves; pedicels 3-6 mm long, erect to spreading, glabrous; tepals 7-10 mm long, apiculate, glabrous on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovule 1.
Grows in heath to wet sclerophyll eucalypt forest, in well-drained soils, usually derived from granite or metasediments, or on basic volcanic substrata in high-rainfall areas, at 1000-1500 m alt.
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