Erect shrubs 1-2 m tall. Hairs whitish or greyish to tawny, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets densely hairy. Leaves linear, 2-8 cm long, 0.9-1.3 mm wide, subterete, often slightly incurved, spreading to suberect, straight, pungent, not glaucous, moderately to densely hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth to slightly scaberulous. Inflorescence anauxotelic, 5-30-flowered; rachis 1.5-6 cm long. Flowers mostly subtended by scale leaves; pedicels 0-5 mm long, spreading, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 5.5-11.5 mm long, acute, glabrous on outside. Anther appendage obtuse, 0.3-0.4 mm long. Ovary densely hairy. Drupes verrucose.
Grows in dry sclerophyll woodland, in yellow sandy loam over clay, always in the vicinity of salt lakes.
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