Erect shrubs 0.8-1.5 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately hairy. Leaves elliptic to broadly elliptic to ovate to obovate, 10-25 mm long, 3-12 mm wide, flat, with slightly recurved margins, spreading, straight, innocuous, usually strongly discolorous, not glaucous, sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence auxotelic, 1-10-flowered; rachis 0-5 cm long. Flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 2-5 mm long, erect to recurved, glabrous to sparsely hairy; tepals 5-12 mm long, apiculate to caudate, glabrous to sparsely hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovule 1 or 2.
Grows in dry to wet sclerophyll eucalypt forest in stony, well-drained soils derived from granitic rocks or sandstone, at 200-1100 m alt.
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