Erect shrubs or trees 2.5-9 m tall. Bark smooth on upper branches, finely fissured at base. Hairs greyish to tawny, appressed to patent. Leaves narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 3-14 cm long, 6-30 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins, suberect, straight, twisted through 0-90°, innocuous, slightly to strongly discolorous, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence auxotelic, mostly 5-40-flowered; rachis mostly 3-26 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 1-4 mm long, erect, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 10-13 mm long, prominently caudate, moderately to densely hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous to sparsely hairy; ovule 1.
Grows in heath to wet sclerophyll forest and littoral rainforest, in a variety of well-drained substrata including stabilised coastal dunes and metasediments, from sea level to 500 m alt.
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