Erect shrubs to trees 2-8 m tall. Bark smooth on upper branches, deeply fissured at base. Hairs greyish to tawny, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves spathulate to narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate to lanceolate, 3-8 cm long, 6-18 mm wide, with recurved margins, sometimes slightly incurved, spreading to suberect, straight, innocuous, concolorous, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature (but denser on margins), glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence auxotelic, 1-11-flowered; rachis 0-4 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 3-9 mm long, erect, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 10-13 mm long, acuminate to apiculate, sparsely to moderately hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2.
Grows in dry sclerophyll forest and vine-forest, on granite and other well-drained substrata, from 150 m to 700 m alt.
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