Erect shrubs 0.2-1.8 m tall. Hairs greyish to mid-brown, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves linear, 2-14 cm long, 0.7-1.3 mm wide, compressed to ±terete, with 6 prominent, parallel veins, often slightly incurved, suberect to erect, straight to slightly falcate, innocuous, not glaucous, moderately to densely hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth to slightly scaberulous. Inflorescence anauxotelic or auxotelic, 1-4-flowered; rachis 0-1 mm long. Flowers mostly subtended by scale leaves; pedicels 1.5-12 mm long, erect, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 9-16 mm long, acuminate, moderately to densely hairy on outside. Anther appendage obtuse to acute, 0.3-3 mm long, recurved through 45-180°. Ovary densely hairy.
Grows in low heath, mallee heath, and in Eucalyptus or Banksia woodland, in white, grey or yellow sand or loam, often over laterite.
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