Erect to prostrate shrubs to 2 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs whitish or greyish, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately hairy. Leaves narrowly oblong to oblong to elliptic or, less frequently, ovate, 3-22 mm long, 1-6 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins, spreading, straight, innocuous, concolorous to strongly discolorous, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy, scaberulous. Inflorescence auxotelic, 1-9-flowered; rachis 0-4.5 cm long. Flowers mostly subtended by reduced leaves or leaves; pedicels 1-5 mm long, erect to spreading, sparsely to moderately hairy; tepals 9-11 mm long, acute to apiculate, glabrous to moderately hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovule 1.
Grows in heath dominated by Allocasuarina nana to wet sclerophyll eucalypt forest, in shallow, stony soils derived from granite or metasediments, at 900-1350 m alt.
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