Erect shrubs 0.6-2.5 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish, appressed. Young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy. Leaves linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 8-24 mm long, 1-2.3 mm wide, flat or convex, with recurved margins, sometimes recurved towards tip, mostly spreading at base, straight to slightly falcate, innocuous, slightly to strongly discolorous, not glaucous, glabrous to sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 1-20-flowered; rachis 0-25 cm long. Flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 3-7 mm long, spreading to recurved, glabrous; tepals 7-10 mm long, shortly caudate, glabrous on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovule 1.
Grows in dry sclerophyll eucalypt woodland to forest, on Hawkesbury Sandstone and Wianamatta Shale, between 100 and 300 m alt.
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